10 THE AGRARIAN CRUSADE 



far east as Vermont and New Jersey and as far 

 south as Mississippi and South Carolina, the life of 

 the order as yet centered in Minnesota, Iowa, Wis- 

 consin, Illinois, and Indiana. These were the only 

 States in which, in its four years of activity the 

 Grange had really taken root; in other States only 

 sporadic local Granges sprang up. The method of 

 organization, however, had been found and tested. 

 When a few active subordinate Granges had been 

 established in a State, they convened as a tempor- 

 ary state Grange, the master of which appointed 

 deputies to organize other subordinate Granges 

 throughout the State. The initiation fees, gener- 

 ally three dollars for men and fifty cents for women, 

 paid the expenses of organization fifteen dollars 

 to the deputy, and not infrequently a small sum to 

 the state Grange. What was left went into the 

 treasury of the local Grange. Thus by the end of 

 1871 the ways and means of spreading the Grange 

 had been devised. All that was now needed was 

 some impelling motive which should urge the 

 farmers to enter and support the organization. 



