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In Alsace Lorraine, Germany, farm laborers receive, 

 with board and lodging, $67.30 per year ; in Saxony, 

 males $44.26 and females $22.84, much of the farm labor 

 in Germany being done by women. In Japan with 12 

 hours work a day and five holidays a month, males receive 

 $8.50 to $12.75 per year with food and lodgings ; females 

 with same hours work but no holidays, $6 per annum 

 with food and lodgings. 



Comparison was also made of farming methods of this 

 country with all its improved appliances and that of India 

 whose methods were antiquated centuries ago. 



Statistics for 1887 showed a valuation of leading farm 

 products in this country of four billion dollars and 77 per 

 cent, of total exports were agricultural products. The 

 essayist pleaded for more thorough education of the far- 

 mer and argued in favor of establishing agricultural 

 schools, where boys could be sent to learn the farmer's 

 business and serve apprenticeship at it, as they do at 

 other trades and professions. 



Miss Lizzie J. Huntington spoke of the advanced posi- 

 tion which women hold in the " Grange '' as compared 

 with the old farmer's Societies and Clubs. The organiza- 

 tion had met with opposition, as a " Woman's Rights As- 

 sociation, '' the women being treated on an equal footing 

 with men. The Grange is now represented in every 

 state in the union. Other trades combine for mutual 

 benefit, why shouldn't farmers? No other calling requires 

 science and education more, which the grange supplies in 

 part, it also increases the social spirit among farmers, an 

 important feature in a farmer's life, a religious and tem- 

 perate life is encouraged, and the mission of the grange 

 will not be accomplished until every farmer in the land 

 has received some benefit from it. The speaker gave a 

 short history of the granges in Essex County from its first 

 one, started less than two years before in Amesbury, and 

 now having a county grange with a number of subordi- 

 nate granges, all on a firm foundation with bright futures 

 before them, already showing an improvement in the 



