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Organization of the Farmers Union at Sacramento Fraudulent Wheat 

 Quotations. 75 



CHAPTER IX. 



HOW THE CLUBS BECAME GRANGES. 



Meeting of the Board of Directors President Bidwell s Remarks Major 



Snyder advocates building Cooperative Warehouses Judge McCune on r j 

 Fares and Freights Sonoma Club Mass Meeting at Stockton Thirty 

 Thousand Dollars subscribed Mr. Baxter appears on the Scene Con 

 vention at San Francisco How the Grangers negotiated for Sacks and 

 didn t get them Gen. Bidwell s Address A Lady s Suggestions Mr. 

 Hallett on the Future of the Wheat Market Convention recommends, 

 the Formation of Granges Winding up of its Affairs 87 



CHAPTER X. 



THE OKDER OI PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. 



How established Messrs. Kelley and Saunders A Cloud no bigger than a 

 Man s Hand Significance of Names, &quot;Grange&quot; and &quot;Patron&quot; 

 Eligibility: Organization and First Officers: First Four Dispensations 

 Growth on the Upper Mississippi Eighty Granges a day in Iowa 

 Third Annual Session What the Patrons propose to do Official Decla 

 ration of Purposes Constitution and By-Laws 104 



CHAPTER XI. 



WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. 



Growth Causes of Numerical Strength Granges of the first and second 

 Growth Investments and Savings General and incidental Benefits 

 Worthy Master Adams Address at Charleston Summary of Proceedings 

 What was done about the Texas Pacific Railroad, and why it was dona, 118 



CHAPTER XII. 



ANNALS OF THE STATE GRANGE OF CALIFORNIA. 



Organization at Napa Representation Address of N. W. Garretson Spe 

 cific Objects stated Resolutions State Book of Plans Election of 

 Officers and Executive Committee Agencies provided for First An 

 nual Meeting One Hundred and Four Granges in Three Months- 

 Worthy Master Wright s Address Report of Committee on Irrigation- 

 Committee of Inquiry into Agricultural Department of University- 

 Election of Officers for two ensuing Years Presentation to Brothe: 

 Garretson Installation Professor Carr s Lecture , 131 



CHAPTER XIII. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE GRANGE BY-LAWS RULE9-OF- ORDER. . . 153 



CHAPTER XIV. 



BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS. 



Agency established in San Francisco Mr. A. F. Walcott appears for E. E. 

 Morgan s Sons Firm endorsed by prominent Houses Agreements and 

 Precautions State Agent Competition produces better Prices Savings 

 of the first Year Grangers Bank Meeting Organization Dairy 

 Agency Stanislaus Saving and Loan Society Warehouses at Modesto 



