The Texas Farmer (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 6, 1881 Page: 6 of 8
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THE TEXAS FARMER.
APRIL 6
liKANtiK DEPARTMENT.
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Michigan.
Overseer—Put Darden, Fayette, Miss.
Lecturer—Houry K#hfa«iUgb, Hanover,
Missouri.
steward—A. J. Vaughn, Memphis,
Teonesee.
Asst. Steward—Wm. Sliwi Topeka
Kansas.
Chaplain— . U- Ellis, Springboro, Ot
Treasurer-F. M. McDowell, Wayne,
New York.
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Gate Keeper—O. Dinwiddle, Orchard
Grove, Indiana.
Ceres—Mr . Warty H. Woodman, Paw
Paw, Michigan.
Pomona—Mary Low Dhrden, Fayette,
Mississippi.
Flora- E.M.Michol#fti,Camden,N.J.
L. A.S,—II. A, Sim#, TpppHa, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE Cp^ipprBK.
Henley James, Marion Ind. Chairman.
D. W. Aiken, Cokesbury, S. C., Sec'y.
Wm, i}. Wayn^„Sene«a Falls,
officer
texas
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«TATE «BANUE.
Master—A. J. Rose, Salado.
Overseer—J. E. Gray, BTenham.
Lecturer—A. N. Edwards, Sulphur
^4usw«rd—Tví M. Blníock, Marshall. .
Asst.' Steward—J. B. Long, Busk.
Chaplain—G. L. Jennings, Groesbeck.
Treasurer—J. B. Henry, Mexia.
Secretary—B. T. Kennedy, Mexia.
Gate Keeper—W. W Sayler, Lain-
passas. ' '
Ceres-i-Mw. At J. Bose, Saiadp.
Pomona—Mrs. Bettle Hines, Fair-
field.
Flora—Mrs. Willie House. Giddings.
L. A. S.—Mrs. Sallle Blalock, Marshall.
executive committee.
Dr. J. R. Biggs, Kelleyvllle.
Capt. A. M. Kcllar, Birdsdale.
CoL Wm. Booths Paris.
in the «JtpfKrity oí Cpjqntfttee-men
Then lirflunr names w ft*r#aiNied at
once,"in order thai tlié Work may* bo-
gin as early as possible. With severa
hundred intelligent, Uve and earnest
patrons working throughout the state
in co-operation with the Lecturers and
state officers, will prod me results tru-
ly astonishing. The good of the cause
requires organization afcd work. Pu^
the ball iu motion at once.
BW, A. Brigance, of Roan's Prairie,
Grimes county, sends us some sub-
scribers, and speaks encouragingly of
the grange Interests in his county.
Your former post office order all
right, Bro. Brigance. Many thanks,
The address of Bro. H. N. G. Bently,
the deputy of Hopkins county, is Car-
roll's Prairie, Texas. He says the
cause is flourishing In Hopkins. Bro.
Bently will favor the Farmer with
communications on grange and agri-
cultural topics from this on. He is a
fine writee, and we are glad to hear
from him.
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POMOSA ORANGES.
BASTROP COUNTY.
Master—J. W. Kennedy, Alum Creek.
Bastrop.
Secretiry-
-G. R. Allen,
bell county.
Master—J. W. Clark,
Secretary—W. S. White,
ijeon coitnty.
Master—J. J. Long.
Secrotary—W. S. DeBerry,
navarro county
Master—Sam Hamilton,
Secretary—
wffJiMMSON coüitnr
Salado.
Belton
JewcU
Corsieana
Master—J. A. Fordes,
Secretary— —
Florence
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Office Master Texas S. G.
SaIiAPo, Tex. April 2,1881. )
The National Grange, at its last ses-
¡onunended the adoption of the
lowing amendment to the constitu-
tion,viz: i
Strikeout the word "sixteen" where
It occurs before the word "years?' in
the second line of Article vi^and insert
in lieu thereof, "fourteen".
1 have this day received official imor-
mation that the amendment has been
ratified by three-fourths of all the State
Granges, and is now a part of the or-
ganic law of the order. The vi Article
of the constitution an amended,reads as
follows:
Any person engaged In agricultural
pursuit and having no interest in con-
flict with our purposes, Of ,.the age of
fourteen years, duly proposed, elected,
and complying with the rules and reg-
SS¡^ÍíS¡!SáUSZ£
vrees taken. Every application must
be acconfpáhied by the fee of member-
ship. rdected,the_mone
|lbe re-
ived from a rejected applicant
U nave elapsed after such
plication must be certi-
aud balloted for ata
ng. It shall require
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The Grange Districts of the State
are based on the Congressional dis-
tricts as they now stand; and as Bro.
B. T. Kennedy, Secrotary of the State
Grange, and others have applied to us
for information on this subject, we
publish below, for the information of
all concerncd, a correct list of the
counties, composing the several dis-
tricts, to-wit:
1. The following counties com-
pose the first district, to-wlt:
Chambers, Liberty, Hardin, Jefferson,
Orange, Polk, Tyler, Jasper, Newton,
Trinity, Angelina, San Augustine, Sa-
bine, Shelby, Nacogdoches, Cherokee,
Houston, Anderson, Busk, Smith, Pa-
nola and Henderson.
2. The following counties com-
pose the second district, to-wit:
Harrison, Marion, Cass, Bowie,
Upshur, Titus, Bed Blver, Wood,
Hopkins, Lamar, Delta, Fannin, Hunt
Rains, Van Zandt and Gregg.
8. The following counties com-
pose the third district to-wit:
Grayson, Collin, Kauffman, Dallas,
Ellis, Johnson,Tarrant, Denton, Cooke,
Montague. Wise, Parker, Hill, Hood,
Erath, Palo Pinto, Jack, Clay, Wich-
ita, Archer, Young, Stephens, Shackel-
ford, Throckmorton, Baylor. Wilbar-
ger, Hardeman, Knox, Ilaskcl, Jones,
Eastland, Callahan, Taylor and Rock-
wall.
4. The following counties com-
pone the fourth district, to-wit: Co-
manche, Coryell, Hamilton, Harris,
Grimes, Montgomery. Walker, Madi-
son, San Jacinto, Brazos, Robertson,
Leon, Freestone, Limestone, McLen-
nan, Navarro, Bosque, Falls, /Waller,
Fort Bend and Bell.
5. The following counties com-
pose the fifth district, to-wit: Gal-
veston, Brazos, Matagorda, Wharton,
Austin, Colorado, Lavaca. Fayette,
Washington, Burleson, Bastrop, Trav-
is, Williamson, Milam, Burnet, Lam-
pasas, Brown, Coleman, Runnels, San
Saba, Concho, McCulloch and Lee.
<k The following counties com-
pose the sixth district, to-wit:
Atascosa, Aransas, Bee, Bandera,
Bexar, Blauco, Caldwell, Calhoun,
Camoron, Comal, Dimmit, DeWitt,
Duval, Edwards, El Paso, Encinal,
Frio, Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales,
Guadalupe, Hays, Hidalgo, Jackson,
Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kin-
ney, Llano, La Salle, Live Oak,Mason,
Maverick, Medina, Menard, McMul-
len, Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Refugio,
San Patricio, Starr, Uvalde, Victoria,
Webb, Wilson; Zapata add Zavala.
pleases with them. This is the prin-
ciple of co-uperatiou, and yet if a
grange store la started to do business
on this plan, a howl is put up about it,
and opposition arrayed against it to
defeat the laudable purposo had in
view. This, we think, is a positiou,
very untenable and must eveutually
be abandoned, and some other plan
adopted before the progress of co-
operation can be checked, There is
so muck Justice, equity and advantage
in !t, that,it only has to bo understood
to be appreciated and embraced.
Cotton 9K111.
Suppose Mr. ▲ establishes himself
in your town as a merchant, and ad-
verUse in your county paper that for
every ten, fifteen or twenty dollar
purchase ot goods from his stóre he
would retain toihe purchaser a cer.
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rightto db' as he
Windsor, N. C., March 16, 1881.
W. P. Hancock & Co.I see In
yotir valuable paper that a Clement
Mill is to be located at Salado, and
that the lumber has been ordered, but
nothing is said about the machinery.
Great care should be taken to get
good machinery, which Is the key to
success of all, cotton mills. Thinking
that I can say a word or two that will
be of some encouragement and help
to your enterprise I will mention my
trip east. In February, I received a
letter from Mr. O. Barber, of Rich-
burg, S. C , asking me to meet him and
his brother in Philadelphia, on the
2nd of March, to assist them In order-
ng machinery for a cotton mill. We
arrived In that city on the 4th. and met
Mr. F. Barber at the merchants Hotel.
After talking about the purchase he
was to make, we went to the Brides-
burg shops, examined their machinery
and got their prices; we then went
east, and visited nearly all the ma-
chine shops, examined their machin-
ery and got their lowest prices, and
after comparing, we found that we
could do better at the Bridesburg
shops, than we could east; and found
that their machinery was of a much
better finish and better material used
in its construction. On the 1,2th we
reached Bridesburg shops again, and
placed an order for $80^)00 worth of
machinery. I find that all the machine
shops are over-run with orders, and
from 4 to 6 months, is the shortest
time that they will agree to deliver
machinery after the order is placed. If
the Salado company expect to start
their mill in the coining fall, they have
but little time to lose, and the sooner
they place fheir order the better. My
object in writing this letter, is not to
make anything out of that company.
1 have no such object in view, but
feeling an interest in the welfare of
our beloved South, I am always
ready to do anything in my power
to promote the interests of our peo-
ple. I hope that I may live to see the
daft when the bulk of the cotton crop
win be maufactnred in the South,
then I feel sure we will be the most in-
dependent and prosperous people in
the world. The new mill, owned by
Mr. Geo. H. Cornelson, at Orangeburg,
S. 0., 1* in full operation, and after
April, the first, Will run day ahd night.
Mr. Cornelson has already ordered
more machinery to enlarge his mill.
The new mill at E. City, N. C., is
also in operation and doing well.
If \he people at Salado will let me
know what capacity they want their
mill, 1 will make them a list of 'all
the machinery they will need, free of
charge, and give them such Informa
ti cm as I possess from the few years'
experience I have had. Wishing you
and our Salado friends success in their
enterprise, Í am very respectfully,
C. T. Harden.
on the. bill courses of •
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itp.ri.ARATioN orrvBPoan.
Mttfkrm of Um «muge.
education.
We shall advance the cause ui edu-
cation among ourselves and for oar
children, by all just means within our
power. We especially advocate tor
our agricultural and industrial col-
leges thet practical agriculture, do-
mestic science, and all the aria which
adorn the home, be taught in their
E NOV partisan.
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No CJ-rangc^f true to its obligations, can
discuss political or religious questions,
nor call political conventions, nor
nominate candidates, nor even discuss
their merits in its meetings.
Yet the principles we teach under-
lie all true politics, all true statesman-
ship, and, if properly carried out, will
tend to purify the whole political at-
mosphere of our country. For we
seek the greatest good to the greatest
number.
We must always bear in mind that
no one, by becoming a Patron of.
Husbandry, gives up that inalienable
right and duty which belongs to every
American citizen, to take a proper in-
terest in the politics of his country.
On the contrary, it is right for every
member to do all in his power legiti-
mately to influence for good the ac-
tion ot any political party to which he
belongs, It is his duty to do all he oan
in his own party to put down bribery,
corruption, and trickery; to see that
none but competent,faithful and honest
men, who will unflinchingly stand by
our Industrial interests, are nominated
for all positions of trust; and to have
carried qut the principle should al-
ways characterize every Patron, that
the office should seek the man, and
not the man the office.
We acknowledge the broad princi-
ple that difference of opinion is no
crime, and hold that "progress toward
truth is made by differences of opin-
ion." while "the fault lies in bitterness
of controversy.
We desire a proper equality, equity,
and fairness ; protection for the weak,
restraint upon the strong; in short,
Justly distributed power. These are
American ideas, the very essence of
American independence, and to advo-
cate tho contrary is nnworthy of the
sons and daughter^ of an American
republic.
We cherish the belief that sectional-
ism is, and of right should be, dead
and buried with the past. Our work
is for' the present and the future. In
our agricultural brotherhood and its
purposes we shall recognize no North,
na South, no East, no West.
It is reserved by every Patron, as the
right of a freeman,, to affiliate with
any, party that will best carry out his
principles.
6. Ours being peculiarly a farmers'
institution, we'eau not admit all to our
ranks.
Many are excluded by the nature
of our organization, not because they
have not- a sufficient direct interest in
tilling the soil, appeal to all good citi-
zens for their cordial co-operation to
assist in driving from our midst the
last vestige of tyranny and corruption.
We hail tjie general desire for fra-
ternal, harmony, equitable compromi-
ses, and earnest co-operation, as an
omen of our future success.
conclusion.
7. It shall be an abiding principle
with us to relieve any of our oppress-
ed and suffering brotherhood by any
means at our command.
Last, but not least, we proclaim it
among our purposes to inculcate a
proper appreciation of the abilities
and sphere of woman, as is indicated
by admitting her to membership and
position in our order.
Imploring the continued assistance
of our Divine Master to guide us in
our work, we here pledge ourselves to
faithful and harmonious labor for all
future time, to return by our united,
efforts to the wisdom, justice, frateri-
ty, and political purity of our fore-
fathers. . ^ j, , , , ,
The roport of the committee was
adopted and ordered printed.
Brother Aiken moved, that the me-
morial of the Cotton states' represen-
tatives receive the sanction of this
Grange and be printed.
Adapted. ; * .1 v." .(
interesting to them. Therefore 1 ask
room for a short letter to inform your
thousands of readers that the report
that the Grange is dead is a false alarm.
We are neither dead nor dying, but
are In a lively condition and good spir-
its, looking forward with hopeful ad-
ticipation to the time In the near- fu-
ture when the Grange will become
what it ought to be, a grand success,
and when every farmer, unless abso-
lutely blind to his own interest, will
become omember of it, and help to car-
ry out its noble principles. Our
Grange has a membership of about 45,
and is taking in from one to five mem-
bers every meeting. We need more
ladles in our Grange to cheer Its work
with their presence. We have but
seven lady members in our Grange.
Our co-operative store at Commorce is
doing a good business. It was started
December 27th, 1880, with $800 capi-
tal. We now have about $760, besidos
the cumulative profits. We have not
yet declared dividends, but will at the
quarterly meeting In July next.
The primary object of this letter is
to inform my brother Grangers in this
county that I am now ready to enter
upon my official work as County Dep-
uty and Lecturer, and am authorised to
organize and reorganize Granges, ex-
emplify the unwritten work, &c. If
there is any demand for my services.
Patrons and others will correspond
with me at Ashland, Hunt county,
stating what is wanted, tho time and
place they desire me, &c., and I prom-
ise their wants shall be attended to
promptly. Fraternally.
A. G. Anderson, C. 1>. & L.
In Memoriam.
FroM ftoaera flrnafc No. toe.
Ashland, Hunt Co., Tex.
Edo. FABMEBHtriÉi ! have seen but
little in your excellent páper from this
Motion of country md as I knbw ybu
columns of the TitífAS FamcM? will be
Whereas, It has pleased au Alwise
Providence to take from our midst
our well beloved sister, M. M. Keith,
wife of Paster Master,' R. W. Keith,
and whereas, sister Keith was at the
time of her decease a member in good
standing of Mastin's Prairie Grange
No. 185; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the members
of said Grange, individually and as a
grange, have lost a worthy, useful, and
exemplary member, and we deeply
mourn and regret her loss, as a sister
in our Order, and as a neighbor;
the community lias sustained an irre-
parable loss; her children a kind and
indulgent mother; lier luisbnnd,
fond and loving wife, zeal-
ous to promote the welfare and growth
of our order; possessing a generous
nature and sympathetic heart, few sis-
ters have passed onward and upward
to a higher life, whose loss their
friends more keenly feel than that of
our worthy sister.
Resolved, That we tender our con-
dolence and fraternal sy path y to the
beloved family, and that we wear the
usual badge of mourning for thirty
days. Be it further
Resolved, That we cause to be
published in the Grange Organ of the
State, a copy of these resolutions, and
a copy of that paper bo sent, to
the bereaved family, and also a copy
bo spread on the minutes of our
grange.
Jos. Ashford,
W. M. Cook,
P. D. Sanders.
Com.
How to Feed Brand.
Bran or ground feed is best fed to
cows upon moistened hay; it being
mixed with the hay, all will be eaten
together and raised and masticated.
But if it is not fed dry and iu a small
quantity each time, for if fed alone it
is not raised and remasticated, but
goes on the third and fourth stomachs.
If fed in ilop it is swallowed without
any mastication, and mixed with little
ót no taliva, but if ffed dry it cannot be
swallowed until it is mixed with saliva,
and ¿be saliva assists in digestion.
When food is masticated the ac-
tion of ramination causes the
saliva to flow and mix with food.
Wa have experimented, and find that
when fled alone dry ground feed isbet-
ter digested than whon fed wet.
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