1656 Report of Farmers' Institutes 



of the other, but yon can not do things tliat way in the open country 

 — for we must stand or fall together, and it helps very little that 

 one or two farmers in a community should be strong and successful 

 if their neighbors fail in the race. In the open country, as 

 nowhere else, it is true that we '' live not unto ourselves, and no 

 man dieth to himself." Well s])oke the Hebrew seer that " where 

 there is no vision the people perish," and the call comes to every 

 man who would be a teacher of farmers to catch the whole vision 

 of our agricultural times and to look toward the sunrise. 



