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enables us to do this, and get the loaf we cannot raise, our 

 agriculture can scarce be a loser. 



Our education and manuftictures may safely go on to the 

 highest state we can carry them, without danger to our 

 farming interests. They will keep pace as fast as other 

 conditions will allow. 



Every achievement of art or science will soon reach the 

 farmer, if it can benefit him. Men who cannot read, are 

 not generally thrifty or wealthy farmers. 



Where knowledge is largely difi'used, power and wealth 

 accumulate, and where they are, the soil will be cultivated 

 for pleasure or profit. The more extended our general edu- 

 cation supplemented by a special one, the better shall we be 

 able to meet the difficulties in the way of our agricultural 

 interests. 



