180 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



do you find more devotion to the principles of the Patrons of Hus 

 bandry than among our southern brothers and sisters, and their 

 name is legion. They hail with joy the glad tidings from all parts 

 of our land, that reform and harmony are fast becoming the watch 

 words of our people. None believe more strongly than they do the 

 great truth, based upon the pure principles of the Grange, that &quot; in 

 our Union is our strength/ They rejoice that the time has come, 

 when in the work of the Grange, by the aid of its many outside 

 friends, we find promise of an educator, a harmonizer, and a peace 

 maker, which, if used in good faith and with prudent action, can 

 eventually be the salvation of our country. Let each of us at all 

 times, fellow Patrons, so act as to lend whatever influence we may 

 have to secure that great result so devoutly to be wished. 



To sum up my efforts for the year, as it has resulted, allow me to 

 report that since our last session, I have traveled over three thou 

 sand miles in our own State, some six thousand miles in attending 

 the National Grange; have visited twenty-seven out of thirty-eight 

 counties in California where Granges exist; have organized thirty- 

 one Granges in addition to the nine organized while Master of the 

 State Grange; have visited twenty-five Granges already organized, 

 and there met members of more than one hundred neighboring* 

 Granges; have delivered seventy-eight addresses, of which some 

 fifty were public; have rehearsed our unwritten work some eighty 

 times in Granges, and hundreds of times in private; have written 

 hundreds of letters, and devoted in all some two hundred days of 

 my time to the interests of the Grange. These labors of the year 

 have been a small tax upon the treasury of the State Grange, from 

 which I have drawn less than one hundred and twenty dollars for 

 my services; in addition to fees for organizing and installing, this 

 has met my expenses and left me a small surplus. The duties of 

 the office have been performed in the midst of many private disap 

 pointments, struggles and trials in the management &quot;of my own farm 

 and business. 



Eeport of John H. Hegeler, Manager of the Dairy Produce 

 Department : 



In representing to the Executive Committee of the California State 

 Grange this report, I give the figures, suggestions, etc., so each may 

 draw their own conclusions. 



The house was opened informally for business on the first of Janu 

 ary, 1874, during which month the sales amounted to $432 03; in 

 February, to $2,423 48; in March, to $8,099 73; in April, to $9,- 

 742 1G; in May, to $10,033 94; in June, to $10,209 88. In July, it 

 dropped to $8,533 21; in August, $11,107 02; and in the last month, 

 September, it ran up to $13,877 94, making a total for the first nine 

 months of $74,460 36. The total number of shippers on the books 

 is 301; the total commissions, $2,481 12; the total expense account 

 amounts to $2,570 36, of which nearly $1,000 is for rents and $450 

 for store fixtures. 



Charged to loss and gain, for bad debts and money otherwise lost 

 in the course of business, $1,222 04, making a loss to the business, 

 so far, of $1,311 28. 



