294 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Second, better morals. 
Third, social improvement. 
Fourth, political independence. 
Fifth, direct pecuniary advantages. 
Would that a Farmer’s Club or Grange were organized in every 
agricultural township in the state, and these again into county so¬ 
cieties, and the counties into a state association ! Let the Clubs 
and Grangers work in harmony and assist each other all they can. 
There is enough to do and room for all. We know that many 
object to the Grange on account of its secrecy. Let those organ¬ 
ize themselves into clubs, and have their county and state organ¬ 
izations. Then with the co operation of these clubs and granges, 
county and state organizations, we may hope to accomplish our 
object, and make “ agriculture the most noble employment of 
man,” and the “tillers of the soil, Nature’s true noblemen.” 
Prof. Daniells desired to know the mode of purchase of this 
club—whether they bought at wholesale or retail, and whether for 
cash or on time. 
Mr. Skavlem said that they purchased by an agent for cask 
and that he had discretion to buy as he thought to be to their ad¬ 
vantage. He said that the cost of belonging to the club was 25 
cents the first year, and $1.00 each year thereafter. That their 
work was open ; no secrets or passwords ; that any farmer could 
join who desired to, and hence he thought the organization pre¬ 
ferable to the granges. 
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. 
BY CHESTER HAZEN, MASTER OF LADOGA GRANGE, LADOGA. 
In this age of progress and co-operation for mutual benefit in 
nearly every branch of industry, such business occupation or pro¬ 
fession as does not associate together for the purpose of thorough¬ 
ly investigating the questions that have a special bearing on its 
business, must necessarily suffer more or less. 
The farmers who far outnumber any other profession and in 
this nation all others, who furnish the material to feed and clothe 
