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exhibition, he wouldn't get a corporal's guard that day to 



hear him. 1 ^ 

 Convention adjourned to 7.30 p. m. 



EVENING SESSION, 7.30 P. M. 



Convention called to order at 7.30 p. m., Vice-President 

 Seeley in the chair. 



The President. If you will all look at your programs 

 you will see that we are to have an address this evening upon 

 * " The Farmer as a Citizen." I do not know of anybody who 

 is better fitted to speak upon that topic than the gentleman, 

 who is himself a farmer, and whose father and grandfather 

 were farmers, and who was brought up and bred in a farming 

 community. I have no need to say anything in particular 

 about him, for he has spoken before our Board at the annual 

 meeting several times, but it gives me great pleasure to intro- 

 duce to you again Col. James Wood of Mt. Kisco, N. Y., who 

 will speak to you this evening upon 



THE FARMER AS A CITIZEN. 



Mr. James Wood. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : 

 As your Chairman has said, I have addressed the meeting 

 of the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture for a number 

 of years past, and I can say that it has always given me 

 very great pleasure to meet with you. Indeed, it has been 

 one of the pleasantest experiences of the year in time past, 

 and it gives me very great pleasure to be with you again 

 this evening. 



The subject upon which I am asked to address you is one 

 with which you are all familiar, and about which it is quite 

 impossible for me to say anything new, but perhaps it may do 

 no harm to recall to your memory some of the many things 

 that you may know very well already. The subject is " The 

 Farmer as a Citizen." A citizen is a person who has the 

 rights and privileges of citizenship. That presupposes that 



