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They tried it in Michigan, and again our machine of cooperation defeated 

 them. 



Singly and alone a man is like a cipher away on the left hand of nothing. 

 He can't take care of his family. 



My specialty is fattening animals. I raised the biggest steer ever grown in 

 the State. He was sold when just five years old and weighed 2,800 lbs. This 

 steer was in the barn near home, and we fed him a little meal each day. The 

 body of our animals were together in another field. One day we turned 

 the big fellow in with the rest and were compellad to rescue him from the 

 combined attack of the entire herd. We then took the leader of the herd 

 in a field alone with the big steer and he was quickly whipped by him, and 

 we tried the same with several of the most pugnacious and, one by one, they 

 were each whipped. But when we again, after this experience, turned the big 

 steer in witli the herd they all united against him and would soon have 

 killed him had we not rescued him again. And so, farmers, we are like the 

 herd of steers. One man alone is not very strong, he is easily whipped, but 

 in cooperation with his fellows he is irresistible. In organization is our 

 strength, and that combination which makes the most of our possibilities, 

 which gives us the mutual support of our whole body, is the greatest need of 

 the American farmer to-day. 



Adjourned. 



CHARLOTTE INSTITUTE. 



PROGRAM. 



Wednesday, February 16, 2 P. M. 



Music — " Let All Rejoice," Anthem. 



Prayer. 



Address of Welcome, Hon. Geo. Huggett, Mayor of the City of Charlotte. 



Music— "Beautiful Friend," Quartette. 



" The Horse's Foot in Health and Disease," Dr. E. A. A. Grange, Agricultural College. 



Discussion. 



Music—" In the Morning by the Bright Light," Quartette. 



"Small Fruit for the Farm and Garden," J. W. Gibson, of Bellevue. 



Discussion. 



A Paper—" Women's Employment," By Mrs. Geo. A. Perry, of Charlotte. 



Music—" Come Where the Jam Pots Grow," Quartette. 



Evening Session, 7 P. M. 



Music—" Oh Restless Sea," Trio. 

 Prayer. 



A Paper entitled " Ourselves," by Dr. Mary E. Green, of Charlotte. 

 Music— Medley introducing sixteen melodies. Quartette. 

 " Sheep Husbandry," S. C. Tarbell, of Kalamo. 

 Discussion. 



Breeds of Cattle, illustrated by Stereopticon, Dr. Manly Miles, Lansing. 

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