state or territory, the same as though they were made or manufactured within the state or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced in original packages.

"Resolved, That this National Grange hereby requests congress to enact a law to prevent the falsely branding of dairy, or dairy and food products as to the state in which they are made, or where produced or manufactured."

The following resolution was presented by Bro. G. W. Worthen, of California, and has been carefully considered:

"Resolved, That the National Grange urge upon congress the appropriation of a liberal sum for a systematic examination and survey of the forests of our mountains, especially the forests of the Pacific coast, by the Department of Agriculture."

We offer the following as a substitute for the above and recommend its adoption:

"Resolved, That the National Grange urge upon congress the appropriation of a liberal sum for a systematic examination, survey and preservation of the public forests of our country by the Department of Agriculture."

The Preamble and Resolutions offered by Bro. G. W. Worthen, of California, following, have been fully considered, and we recommend their adoption:

"WHEREAS, A nation's wealth is the outgrowth of its wealth-producing products; and whereas, these products, in this nation, are largely agricultural and horticultural; and whereas, their value depends upon the quantity and quality, both of the home and foreign-grown products; and whereas, this value can not be determined until reliable information, not only of the quantity and quality of the domestic, but also of all foreign competing products has been secured;

therefore we, the members of the National Grange representing both the agricultural and horticultural interests of the United States of America, most respectfully petition the honorable Secretary of Agriculture to provide consulate telegraphic reports on all foreign-grown, competing products. These reports to include not only the quantity and quality of the competing growing crops, but also a comparison of those crops with those of the past year, to the end that the producers, the trade, and all others interested, may have the most reliable means of determining the value of domestic-grown products while those products are in the hands of those who produced them."

We indorse those parts of the Worthy Master's address referred to us, asking:

"The enactment of National law governing the use of Shoddy, and the manufacture and sale of food products which are susceptible of adulteration, and other fraudulent practices."

GEO. B. HORTON,
A. B. JUDSON,
HENRY RHOADES,
G. W. WORTHEN,
W. K. THOMPSON,
R. J. ELLIS,

I. L. HILLEARY.
PAULINE S. RAINE.

Committee.

Bro. George B. Horton, Chairman, made the following general report for the Committee on Agriculture, which was adopted:

In modern as well as in ancient times, agriculture holds place as the most essential calling of man. With

all the changes that have come to pass through advancing civilization, inventions, discoveries and improved methods, this God-established order of things has not been changed, and never will be, for first of all, the people must be fed. That we may not lose sight of the importance of our calling it is well to repeat oft-stated facts concerning agriculture. Half of the people of the whole country are engaged in its various branches. More than upon any other industry, all classes of people depend upon it, either directly or indirectly, for success in their various callings. It feeds the world from its grain fields, orchards, gardens, flocks and herds, and after all this reserves to itself the foundation from whence it all came. From its homes emanate the most useful, successful and eminent men in business, statesmanship, the professions and military achievements. It brings into existence vastly more real new wealth that never existed before, in form, for the appropriation and use of men, than all other sources of actual wealth production combined. It furnishes seventy-five per cent. in value of our export trade and much the largest share of our interior commerce. Our ritual tells us that "in the beginning God made agriculture honorable, but it is our duty to sustain it as such." From the all-time importance of agriculture and the many truthful and important statements which may be made concerning it, and the responsibilities placed upon this body of farmers to devise ways and means to keep the large class of people engaged in agricultural pursuits fully up to their responsibilities, opportunities and just rights in the rapid development and progress now taking place, your committee fully realizes the importance of the work in hand. To give you figures showing approximate cost of the production of a bushel of grain or pound of meat, or

to consider general farm management, seems to be more properly the work of Subordinate Granges, Farmers' Institutes and agricultural publications. Instead of these we consider it best to turn your thoughts toward some general comparative conditions, causes and results which do or may affect our class in its financial, and consequently its social, intellectual and influential standing, for of these we should take inventories by decades to arrive at proper conclusions as to our stewardship in the work of maintaining the honor and standard of agriculture and its people. It is well for us to plow and cultivate, but our most important duties are beyond these. We must have a watchful care for the results of this effort and labor to the end that we receive our rightful share of its profits and benefits. We may labor diligently in our fields, but if we through neglect of duty permit others to reap the greatest rewards therefrom, we are on the downward course, comparatively, in financial results and, as stated, on account of financial loss our social, intellectual and influential standing also declines. Financial success is the chief support and promoter. This attained,

other desirable results naturally follow. If others receive profits on our labor that should by rights be retained by ourselves, they rise in social distinction while we decline. In the train of comparative loss in financial success comes the shifting of a multitude of burdens onto us which should be borne by others, and as time rolls on we gradually and almost unconsciously come to fill a place in the industrial and social spheres as described by Edward Markham in his now famous poem, "The Man with the Hoe":

"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,

And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;

To trace the stars and search the heavens for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?

Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns
And pillared the blue firmament with light?
Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this-

More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed-
More filled with signs and portents for the soul-
More fraught with menace to the universe.

What gulfs between him and the seraphim
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and swing of Pleiades?

What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited.
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
A protest that is also prophecy.

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,

Is this the handiwork you give to God,

This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?

How will you ever straighten up this shape;

Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Touch it again with immortality;
Make right the immemorial infamies.
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

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