100 HOW THE CLUBS BECAME GRANGES. 



densome and unjust; and we pray your honorable body to repeal the 

 import duty on all burlap bags and all material of which they are 

 manufactured, that they may be admitted free of duty, and your 

 petitioners will ever pray, etc. 



The Committee on Granges and Patrons of Husbandry re 

 ported as follows : 



1st. The organization presents a medium of establishing and 

 maintaining a better state of social and confidential relation among 

 the farmers. 



2d. The necessity of transacting our business within ourselves, 

 without publishing our intentions to the world. 



3d. The unprecedented success of this organization, the Atlantic 

 States is a good evidence that it will, in a measure, meet our wants 

 as an agricultural community; therefore, 



Resolved That it is, in the opinion of this body, expedient to 

 establish among the farmers of the State, Granges of the Patrons of 

 Husbandly. 



Mr. Hallett, of Butte, by leave, read an essay upon the 

 dangers to the wheat crop of California, which was adopted : 



The future of the market for California surplus wheat presents, 

 I think, some new aspects. 



Great Britain is the buyer of the surplus breadstuff s of all the 

 world. She procures supplies from Russia, Austria, Germany, 

 France, Italy, Chili, the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United 

 States, to which must now be added Australia. The average an 

 nual import of great Britain is about three million of tons. The 

 nearest sources of supply are the ports of the continent of Europe: 

 next come the Atlantic ports of the United States; then Australia 

 and Chili, and last California. The transit between these ports and 

 Great Britain is by the ocean, and the cost of transportation is, 

 therefore, in a general way, proportioned to the length of voyage. 

 The price of breadstuff at the ports of export will be equal to the 

 English price, less the cost of transportation thither, and less a 

 further margin proportioned to the time required for transit, which 

 provides for the interest on the money paid for the wheat, and the 

 contingencies of the fluctuation in the English market. Hence, it 

 follows that wheat at a California port must be sold lower than 

 wheat of the same quality at the ports of any other exporting coun 

 try in Christendom. And in reference to this item of quality, it 

 must be remembered that the high grades of Baltic, of Chilian, of 

 Australian and Western American, rate as high as Calif ornian. The 

 question to be investigated is, therefore, whether there is a definite 

 prospect and danger that the surplus from those other countries 

 which are in competition with California are likely to so supply the 

 market in the near future as to reduce the selling cost of wheat at a 

 California port to, or below the cost of production. 



The facts necessary to be learned in order to arrive at a judgment 



