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Show The Grangers Convention. Keokuk, 'Iowa. 17. The convention conven-tion of the executive committee of 1 tiie State G ranges of the patrons of husbandry, representing the States in t'ue Mississippi Valley, which has been in session here for the past two days, adjutirned sine die this p. m. Ttic meetings have been held with closed doors, and no very Urge part of the proceedings have been made public. The following was reported, tu-day. by the committee on uLTicuI-turni- statistics, and adopted by the 1 eo:ivei;Lu:i: 'Whereas we reg.ird complete aud accurate agricultural statistics as the foundation of our control of tlie business of agriculture, agri-culture, by which we may obtain a suitable and just reward for our ial "ors, and allow the law of sup-plv sup-plv and demand to operate freely in tiie regulation of prices to the benefit bene-fit ot both producer and consumer, tiiMi J-.i-e be it resolved that we use our l"..-t flirts to establish, or cause 'to I.,-c-t ihhsb'd. in each and every 1 S;.-,te in our Union, a system of agricultural agri-cultural statistics by which vv'e can Lr-1 i xact information of tlie acreage of the principal cri'ps, the amount oi live slo- k in the country, the quantity of pri c. and the number of allium alli-um .s of i. .ii -h kind f' t market. |