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  1. In US history, a farmers' protest in the
  2. South and Midwest states against economic
  3. hardship and exploitation. The National
  4. Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, formed
  5. 1867, was a network of local organizations,
  6. employing cooperative practices and
  7. advocating `granger' laws. The movement
  8. petered out in the late 1870s, to be
  9. superseded by the Greenbackers.
  10.