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Canada ( Afatter State Grange not organized. 



SUB. GB'S, 8 



Monthly Statement of Subordinate Granges organized 

 during 1872 and 1873 : 



January. Feburary. March. April. May. June. 



1872 54 61 96 08 65 86 



1873 158 347 666 571 696 625 



July. August. September. October. November. December. 



1872 115 79 79 91 1O9 120 



1873 612 829 919 1050 974 1225 



Total number of Subordinate Granges, 10,015 ; re- 

 ported membership, 751,125. 



Such has been the rapid and unprecedented growth 

 of the Order. During the year 1873, its increase was 

 most marked, and it is now spreading at a rate which 

 will soon carry it to every county in the United 

 States. Hitherto its chief growth has been in the 

 Western States, but it is now increasing rapidly in 

 the Middle, Eastern, and Southern States. It has be- 

 come in all respects a national movement, and is already 

 a power which by its immense strength and great im- 

 portance is exerting a tremendous influence in every 

 part of the Union. 



"It has grown by the process of nature," says the 

 New York Tribune, commenting upon its wonderful 

 history, " out of the pressing wants of the time ; and it 

 has spread and waxed strong steadily and rapidly ever 

 since it came into existence. Within a few weeks it 

 has menaced the political equilibrium of the most stead- 

 fast States. It has upset the calculations of veteran 



