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membership for personal reasons, and limits its use- 

 fulness, and on the other hand it is a source of at- 

 traction to others and by that contact a means of help 

 to many. The fraternal spirit, as expressed in such 

 institution, is in a sense the spirit of exclusiveness 

 or cast, or aristocracy. It has served as an effective 

 lever in welding individual sentiment, but it must 

 grow into a broader spirit of inclusiveness. 



The Patrons of Industry is a younger (1887) insti- 

 tution than the Grange and is organized in a like 

 manner and with similar objects. Its membershi[) is 

 very much smaller than the Grange. Fire protection 

 is a prominent feature in its program. The organi- 

 zation has generally developed where the Grange did 

 not exist. 



There are twenty-nine state organizations dealing 

 with particular divisions of plant or animal produc- 

 tion. These include the various stock-breeders' as- 

 sociations for the different types of live-stock, dairy, 

 poultry and beekeepers' associations, and crop asso- 

 ciations prominent among which are the fruit-growers 

 and the vegetable-growers. Antecedent to all these is 

 the State Agricultural Society, which was for many 

 years the chief clearing-house for agricultural dis- 

 cussion and progress. The breaking up of the State 

 organization into working units allied with special 

 interests is a symptom of progress, preliminary to a 

 new general alignment of rural interests. Eecently 

 the society has been revived in affiliation with the De- 

 partment of Farms and ]\Iarkets as a sort of general 

 agricultural forum, or central clearing-house for all 



