20 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 

 THE LESSONS OF THE GRANGE. 



The Grange as a Means of disseminating Agricultural Information- 

 Grange Tracts How they are circulated Efforts of the Order to im- 

 prove the Farmer's Condition The Grange as a School of Reform It 

 makes Better Farmers How it spreads Information Advice as to 

 Improvements The .Grange the Enemy of Careless and Improvident 

 Farming It encourages Good and Careful Work The Stacks of 

 Wheat Only Virtuous and Industrious Members admitted into the 

 Order The Grange making Intelligent Farmers Beneficial Effects 

 of the Discussions of the Grange The Grange teaches Habits of 

 Thrift and Economy Discountenances Debt The Grange the Enemy 

 of Selfishness Encourages Education The Friend of the Schools The 

 Grange making Better Men as well as Better Farmers Claims of 

 the Order upon the Sympathy of the Country 462 



CHAPTER XXIX. 

 THE COOPERATIVE FEATURE. 



Cooperative Feature of the Grange How the Grange saves the Farmers 

 the Middle-man's Profit Circular of the Secretary of the National 

 Grange A Means of Practical Economy The System of Purchases 

 adopted by the Grange The System on Trial in Iowa The System 

 productive of Economy How the Iowa Grange conducts its Operations 

 Bringing the Manufacturers to Terms The Plow Trade A Saving 

 of Fifty Thousand Dollars on Plows A Liberal System of Discounts 

 Work of the State Agent Joint Stock Stores established Method of 

 Cooperative Selling Elevators established by the Granges Direct 

 Shipments Magnificent Success of the Grange in Iowa The Granges 

 saving more Money than they cost Efforts to embarrass the Grange- 

 Warning of the National Grange Opposition of the Middle-men 

 A Successful Effort at Cooperation abroad The History of the Civil 

 Service Supply Association of London A Lesson and an Encour- 

 agement to the Grange 471 



CHAPTER XXX. 



THE FUTURE OF THE GRANGE. 



Retrospective Future of the Order What it will accomplish for the 

 Farmer and for the Country The Grange pledged to a Just and Liberal 

 Course of Action The Grange not a Destructive Order Its Stake in the 

 Community Elements of Opposition Distrust of Politicians Political 

 Views of the Granges Platforms of the Farmers of Illinois, Minnesota, 

 and Iowa Necessity for the Order to confine itself to its Proper Work.. 505 



CHAPTER XXXI. 

 LEADING GRANGERS 515 



