The idea that the people, farmers, or grangers have not sufficient knowledge to take the lead in any attempt to reform the abuses under which they suffer, is put prominently forth.

A certain thrifty granger of the writer's acquaintance was recently converted from the error of his attitude towards the "tarnal weeds and brush."

Landing in Nickerson I hired a horse and went out to the old granger's ranch where I had left my two ponies.

In theology I am a granger—I do not believe in middlemen.

Instead, he changed off into some old-time granger rhyme that had more philosophy than music in it.