AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS.


[_Officers and members of farmers' organizations of all kinds are
invited to send for publication in this department notices of meetings,
time of holding fairs, and other pertinent information. We desire to
make of it a weekly bulletin that shall be looked for with interest by
members of clubs, granges, fair associations, and agricultural and
horticultural societies._]


The Maine State Grange has elected the following officers: Master,
Frederick Robie, of Gorham; Overseer, H.E. Gregory, of Hampden;
Lecturer, D.H. Thing, of Vernon.


At a meeting of the Wisconsin State Grange resolutions were passed
requesting the Legislature to separate the State Agricultural Experiment
Farm from the State University, and to locate it in an agricultural
district.


At the Vermont State Grange's annual meeting at Brattleboro, December
13-14, 1883, 72 granges were represented. For the first time since the
organization of the grange its doors were opened to the public, and the
State Board of Agriculture met with it. Worthy Master Franklin's address
revealed a healthy condition of the Order in Vermont.