The Farmers' Alliance

The plan is a good one, but we think a plot of twenty acres put in by the Alliance on the co-operative plan would be better. If a twenty acre plot was sown in oats such members as could not work could furnish the seed, the others could in a day or so put it in, such members as have binders could cut it, while others shocked. Some members of most Alliances have a threshing machine, and if the grain was threshed from the shock the women could have a picnic or other good dinner, and one day would be sufficient in many places to thresh and haul off the grain. The money would then be obtained early enough this fall to flood each township with reform papers and pamphlets just before election, or any other use it might be decided on. I like this plan because it will help to make the members better acquainted, and many will go into this who are not situated so they could tend an acre by themselves.

Which Alliance in the state will make the best report of a field of grain raised to the State Alliance next winter? We like your plan of an educational fund, and shall try to get some subscribers soon.

Yours for reform,