418 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



ing their friendship. Above all, perhaps, it is a great 

 thing to have brought the honest agricultural element 

 prominently into politics ; it looked a year ago as if the 

 art of government was gradually falling into the hands 

 of an exclusive profession, the hands being the dirtiest 

 and the profession the meanest in all the United States." 



No official estimate is given of the number of mem- 

 bers of the various Granges, but with the number of 

 lodges at seven thousand, or over, the number of mem- 

 bers may be safely estimated at about half a million. 

 A year hence, if the present rate of growth continues, 

 as there is every reason to believe it will, the member- 

 ship of the Order will be nearly three millions. 



Such an Order must necesarily exert a powerful in- 

 fluence upon the community. If it be for good, the 

 Order must be regarded as a blessing to the entire 

 country ; and that it is for good we hope to show in the 

 remaining chapters of this work. 



The Order has passed beyond the limits of the United 

 States, and has spread into Canada, where there are 

 now seven subordinate Granges. They are as follows : 



No. 1. INTERNATIONAL Master, Albert P. Ball, Stanstead, Prov. 



Quebec ; Secretary, J. G; Field, Derby Line, Vermont. 

 No. 2. BARXSTON Master, Geo. C. Hanson, Barnston, Prov. Que- 

 bec ; Secretary, Ed'd A. Gushing, Barnston, Prov. Quebec. 

 No. 3. GOLDEN Master, Albert E. Damon ; Secretary, Wm. Major, 



Drew's Mills, Prov. Quebec. 

 No. 4. SHIPTON Master, Timothy Leet ; Secretary, R. M. J. Bernard, 



Danville, Prov. Quebec. 

 No. 5. AYLMEK Master, Lord Aylmer, Melbourne, Prov. Quebec ; 



Secretary, John Main, Melbourne, Prov. Quebec. 

 No. 6. FRELIGHSBURG Master, S. R. Whitman, Freliglisburg, Prov. 



Quebec; Secretary, E. E. Spencer, Frelighsburg, Prov. 



Quebec. 

 No. 7. DUNHAM Master, R. L. Galer, Dunham, Prov. Quebec ; 



Secretary, C. E. C. Brown ? Dunham, Prov. Quebec. 



