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such person as an independent man. A farmer may refuse to take less t>iatt 

 $1 for his wheat, but that does not make him independent, and when ho- 

 wants to sell lie must take ^vhat he can get. 



Mr. W. J. Gr. Dean: As to clover large or small, a farmer of my acquaint- 

 ance had a ten acre field of Timothy and small clover, and beyond it eleven 

 acres of larger clover, and he said that his stock passed right through the 

 first field and left it to get the large clover. In winter in barn he had clear 

 Timothy, Timothy and small clover, and large clover in three separate- 

 places, and his stock when turned free always chose the latter. 



Mr. VVolcott: I have tried large clover and when it is alone my stock 

 will trim all the fence edges and take marsh grass, and leave the big clover- 

 untouched. 



Mr. Wetmore : I sowed big clover and it got so high it disgusted me. 

 The next year I pastured it. The season was very dry. June 10th, I turned 

 the stock off to save the big clover for hay. I saved it till well ripened and 

 found my stock all preferred it to June clover hay. 



Mr. G. A. Smith : I find cattle eat clover best when in blow. At any 

 other time cattle will only eat clover after cleaning up the fence rows, etc.. 

 I presume Mr. AVillis cut his large clover in the blow. 



HOW TO MAKE FARM LIFE ATTRACTIVE. 



BY HON. THOMAS MAES, OF BERRIEN CENTER. 

 [Read at the Three Oaks Institute, Fehy. 11, 1887.] 



Fclloto Citizens: 



We are prone to make farm life detestable. At every change of weather 

 we are ready to complain; seasons are not right, crops are poor, prices are 

 low, moneyed corporations have combined to rob the poor farmer, and a long 

 catalogue of complaints are heralded from every cross roads, hotel, store, 

 postoffice and social gathering in the broad land, until it has become a second 

 nature for the farmer to complain. His children listen to his complaints, 

 and as soon as they arrive at the proper age to choose for themselves, 

 naturally seek other avenues of activity. This is all wrong; and we ought to- 

 face about, and stand on our dignity, be ever ready to vindicate our vocation 

 and uphold it as inferior to none, and thus we shall do much to enhance the 

 attractions of farm life. 



AVebster never uttered a more forcible and important truism than when he 

 said: "All national wealth depends upon an enlightened agriculture;" a 

 truism illustrated in the history of every nation on the globe, prosperity and 

 wealth ever being found proportionate to a nation's advancement in agricult- 

 ural knowledge and practice. 



This will always be true of any country and it is equally true that the 

 neglect of agricultural interests and the depreciation of agriculture is an 

 index of the demoralization and decay of a nation. 



Farmers as a class are moral and law abiding citizens, and the embodiment 

 of those principles that constitute the very foundation and framework of 

 good society. 



