1905. 
865 
NATIONAL GRANGE. 
The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
National Grange was held at Atlantic City, 
N. J., November 13-23. Master Aaron Jones 
stated that the Order has received 60,000 
new members during the year, well scattered 
throughout the country. He referred to the 
educational features of the organization as 
giving opportunity to study advanced agri¬ 
culture. including the relation of the elements 
of the atmosphere to the elements of the 
soil; the elements of the soil to the require¬ 
ments of plant and animal life; the study 
of domestic science and the science of govern¬ 
ment. lie emphasized the need of teaching 
the principles of agriculture in all public 
schools, and referred with appreciation to 
the educational work of the agricultural 
press. He gave the following summary of 
needed legislation deemed of special import¬ 
ance by the Grange; 
Tutting rural mail delivery on the same 
permanent basis as city delivery; establish¬ 
ment of postal savings banks; election of 
1'nited States Senators by popular ’ vote; 
regulation of trusts; enlargement of powers 
and duties of Inter-state Commerce Com¬ 
mission ; regulation of use of shoddy; en¬ 
actment of pure food laws; extension of 
markets for farm products equally with man¬ 
ufactured articles; construction of a ship 
canal from Mississippi Iiiver to Atlantic 
Ocean via the Great Lakes; placing salaries 
of Government officials on the basis of like 
service in private business; parcels post, 
telegraph and telephone in the mail service; 
State inspection of all corporations; just 
taxation of all property. 
The various reports showed a membership 
aggregating 800.000. A few items of special 
note gathered from conversation, speeches 
and reports follow : 
Mr. Gardner, of Maine, said that 80 per 
cent of the Granges own their halls, valued 
at more than $800,000. Two of the most 
expensive cost $14,000 and $13,000; eight 
dedicated during the past year averaged 
nearly $4,400 each. He believed Iloulton 
Grange, with 904 paid-up members, to be 
the largest in the country. The Patrons’ in¬ 
surance companies of Maine are carrying 
more than $30,000,000 worth of business. 
Mr. Hill, of Pennsylvania, reported 6,000 
new members during the year, and activity 
in looking after legislation needed by agri¬ 
cultural interests. Mr. Hill was one of the 
delegates to the international agricultural 
congress held in Italy last Summer, and 
seemed much impressed with the proceedings. 
He thought this movement should have the 
strong endorsement of the Grange. Mr. 
Hadley, of New Hampshire, said that that 
State has appropriated $730,000 for highway 
Improvement during the next six years. He 
favored National legislation in this line. 
Mr. Detrick, of Ohio, spoke for the use of 
convict labor on the highways. Statistics 
show that the total expense, including guard, 
for keeping three convicts at work on the 
roads is only one dollar. He believed that 
punishment of this kind would tend to lesson 
crime. “Defalcations and other betrayals or 
trust would be less common if pounding 
stone, digging ditches and shoveling gravel 
on the road were the punishment, rather than 
some light job or kidglove sinecure in a 
flower decorated office with no surroundings 
indicative of prison life.’’ He also favored 
untaxed alcohol for fuel, lighting and powet. 
This would make demand for 100,000,000 
gallons of alcohol per year, which could be 
made from grain or vegetables in times of 
surplus and stored indefinitely. Mr. Ladd 
said that in Massachusetts the Grange Fire 
Insurance Co., carries $3,000,000 In risks at 
less than half the cost in old line companies. 
Mr. Leed.v, of Oregon, referred to the excel¬ 
lent work done by the Grange fairs. Oregon 
State Grange is strongly in favor of parcels 
post and National aid for highways. Mr. 
Westgato, of Kansas, said that one of the 
strongest, banks in the State is owned and 
operated by the Grange. 
The gratitude of the Grange to one of 
its seven founders, the only one now living 
was expressed in the tangible form of a pen¬ 
sion of $100 per month to be paid to O. IT. 
Kelley during the remainder of his life. The 
Seventh Degree was conferred on a class of 
1,300. 
Resolutions covering the following matters 
were introduced: Federal control of railroad 
rates; stringent enforcement of oleo laws 
and prompt action to fight the proposed re¬ 
peal of the Grout bill; modification of 
immigration laws in the interest of farm 
labor; the establishment of Grange banks, 
approval of work of Department of Agri¬ 
culture in gathering crop statistics; protec¬ 
tion of timber lands; removal of tariff on 
logs and lumber; teaching the principles of 
agriculture in public schools; favoring parcels 
post; employment of convict labor in road 
building; removal of tax on alcohol used for 
industrial purposes. One resolution con¬ 
tained this emphatic language regarding in 
suranee; 
“The National Grange condemns and brands 
as criminal any attempt to influence legisla¬ 
tion or control the votes of legislators by 
the use of money. All officers or others who 
use the funds of insurance companies for 
personal gain are embezzlers and should be 
punished. Any contributions by the officers 
of the company to further flic interests ot 
any political party is a corrupt use of money. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
It is urged that no member patronize a life 
insurance company that pays any of its 
officers more than $25,000 per year or per¬ 
mits the contribution of money to political 
causes for private gains or to influence 
legislation.’’ 
From all points of view the meeting was 
considered successful, and the week's outing 
at this delightful seaside place was much en¬ 
joyed, particularly by members whose homes 
are far inland. The sessions were held in 
the Music Hall and Casino on the Steei 
Pier. Much credit is due to those who have 
hitherto directed the affairs of this great 
organization with such combined wisdom, 
aggressiveness and conservatism that serious 
dissension has not crept in and the Grange 
has steadily moved on until it is recognized 
as a mighty force in the Nation. 
Officers were elected as follows: National 
Master, N. J. Hatchelder, of New Hampshire; 
Lecturer, George W. F. Gaunt, New Jersey; 
Overseer, T. C'. Atkeson, West Virginia; 
Steward. J. A. Newcomb, Colorado ; Assistant 
Steward, F. E. Marchant, Rhode Island; 
Chaplain, W. K. Thompson, South Carolina , 
Treasurer, Mrs. McDowell, New York; Secre¬ 
tary, C. M. Freeman, Ohio; Gate Keeper, S. 
R. Powers, Wisconsin; Ceres, Mrs. R. T. 
Ladd, Massachusetts; Flora, Mrs. A. M. Hor¬ 
ton, Michigan. H - 
Cement on Tin Roofs. —I seriously doubt 
the practicability of coating an old tin roof 
with an inch of cement mortar, though I 
do not know of an instance where such an 
experiment has been tried. My reasons are 
as follows: 1. Most old tin roofs have 
been coated «#veral times with paint, which 
will prevent a perfect bond between the 
cement mortar and the tin. 2. Expansion 
joints -would be necessary, for of all ex¬ 
posed surfaces the roof of a house is sub¬ 
jected to the greatest changes of tempera¬ 
ture. 3. A cement mortar is by no means 
waterproof; however, this latter reason will 
not be a serious one, as water would prob¬ 
ably not have time to penetrate through an 
inch of good mortar under such conditions. 
The proportion of sand and cement should 
be decided by the porosity of the sand. An 
amount of cement should be used which will 
just fill the pores of the sand. 
Dept, of Agriculture. logan w. page. 
Killing Gkassiioffers. —Prof. C. B. Simp¬ 
son, Entomologist of the Transvaal, South 
Africa, writes of a campaign against locusts. 
Doubtless some of our readers when boys 
read the account of the locust plague in 
“The Bushboys.” “We are placing our main 
reliance upon a strong arsenical spray. The 
spray consists of one pound of arsenic, half 
a pound of carbonate of soda, one pound 
of sugar, and 10 gallons of water. These 
chemicals are boiled together so as to make 
the solution arsenite of sodium, which is 
sweetened by the sugar. In order to show 
you how effective this is, I need only cite 
one instance of a farmer who noted a swarm 
of fully-grown “voetgangers”—that is, grass¬ 
hoppers in their last stage before obtaining 
wings—which was 200 yards long and 50 
yards wide. These locusts were advancing 
down a hill toward his mealies. (The term 
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mealies is used in this country instead of 
corn.) This swarm was so numerous that 
it stopped a railway train, the latter being 
obliged to go back several times before it 
could cross it. The farmer sprayed a semi¬ 
circle about 60 feet wide in front of the 
swarm, using the arsenical spray. As a 
result not a single locust escaped. It seems 
that the sugar in the spray has a great 
attraction for them, and they eat their nil 
of it to their utter destruction. 
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