The Patrons of husbandry in Corvallis, Oregon and on the Pacific coast

Depot of the Oregon Short Line RR

The Grange has been in the Corvalis area very nearly since its inception. Charles Moore and Jacob Modie, son of Jacob Modie (who was a first settler in the area), were the Grange's Organizing Deputies in Corvallis. Charles also sat on the state executive committee. There remains a Corvallis Grange chapter.

There are Grange Halls in Lewisburg and Greenberry Rd. There was a hamlet of Granger just north of Corvallis, named, like other such communities across the country, for the Grange:  the Oregon Short Line ran from Granger, north of Corvallis, to Huntington, Oregon

The Patrons of husbandry on the Pacific coast

Being a complete history of the origin, condition and progress of agriculture in different parts of the world; of the origin and growth of the order of Patrons, with a general and special grange directory, and full list of charter members of the subordinate granges of California. Also, of the foes of the farmers, or monopolies of land, water, transportation and education; of a protective tariff, currency and banking. By Ezra S. Carr

THE OFFICE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY.
its rights, its interests, its powers and its destiny, and is learning how to organize itself in America." The final organization
is far in the future; the germ of it lay far back in the past. No
great constructive movement can originate which is not historical as well as progressive in its spirit; it must otherwise limit
itself to temporary conditions, and a few generations. In order
that we may rightly understand the work of our noble order,
the Patrons of Husbandry, we need to examine the economy of
civilized society, and the relations of agriculture to civilization.

"The hand is almost valueless at one end of the arm if there be not a brain at the other
end."-Horace Mann.
MAN AND NATURE-AGRICULITURE THE FOUNDATION OF INDUSTRY —RAW MATE RIALS-FIRST STEPS TOWARD MANUFACTURES-CIVILIZATION REGARDS ALL THE
PROCESSES OF EQUAL VALUE-THE SOCIAL BODY, ITS DIFFERENT PARTS AND
FUNCTIONS-HOW DIVISION OF LABOR INCREASES PRODUCTION-HOW IT BEGETS
EXCHANGE OR COMMERCE-COMMERCE A CHARGE UPON AGRICULTURE; MAGNI TUDE OF THE TAX-HOW THIS ENRICHES THE FARMER-MONEY AS A COMMER CIAL AGENT-OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD AND OF MONEY TO CHEAPEN EXCHANGE
-RELATIONS OF AGRICULTURE TO THE PROFESSIONS: TO THE GROWTH OF
TOWNS: To SCIENCE.
IN the beginning, man was alone- with nature. Without arts,
without capital, without implements, he took his sustenance
from the bosom of the earth, as the common mother of the
race. It was his destiny not only to share the spontaneous productions of nature with his fellow animals, but to search out
the physical elements and determine their capabilities; to make
the needful combinations-to bring into action their productive
powers; not only to supply the animal wants, and minister to the
pleasure of his organic nature, but to render them tributary to
his intellectual, moral and social development, and his ultimate
spiritual elevation and well being.
In the discharge of this great duty, every avocation of man
has its work to perform. It is the province of agriculture to
begin the process by the tilling of the ground, as the term imports, by stimulating and guiding the productive energies of
the physical elements to results infinitely transcending,

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