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particularly in the cities that are dangerous to Republican aud 

 Democratic government, we shall have this great body of farmers 

 throughout the country and if we have them right and united, our 

 old Government will forge on for centuries to come. So, my friends, 

 let us try, not only to be right, as we are advancing in agricultural 

 work, as we are all trying to do, but let us try to be united more than 

 we are. I think we do well to emphasize that point. Let us through 

 our several states and counties and several cities endeavor to have 

 the farmers united, because if they are not united we never will 

 accomplish what we want to do for ourselves and for others. 



I hope to enjoy your program, and was glad to meet so many of 

 iny fellow-workers here. I wish you every success, and hope that the 

 good things will radiate over the river into New Jersey as well as 

 westward into Ohio. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN: The Division of Farmers' In- 

 stitutes in Pennsylvania has always recognized and appreciated the 

 help and strength given agriculture by the agricultural press of the 

 nation. We have with us this morning a representative of one of the 

 strongest agricultural papers in the land, The American Agricul- 

 turist, Prof. Wm. J. Johnson, of New York. I know you will appre- 

 ciate listening to Prof. Johnson for a moment. 



ADDRESS. 



By Puof. Wm. J. Johnson, Editor, The American Agriculturist, New York. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: When I came in the door 

 your worthy Chairman asked me if I would make a few remarks. 

 As you all know, I am always ready to respond to such an invitation. 

 If Mrs. Johnson were here, she would probably tell you that I am 

 not only ready to make a few remarks, but usually desirous of having 

 the last word. I am sure it will not be the case here. What I 

 have to say will be very brief indeed. I wish to extend to you a 

 hearty greeting as a representative of the agricultural press; hearty 

 sympathy with you in the work in which you are engaged. It 

 makes little or no difference where you find us working. We, as 

 your worthy Secretary has said, are united in this one proposition, 

 that the one great movement in this country to-day, so far as the 

 farmer is concerned, is one of education. 



I have come to believe since I left the old Ohio farm, about 

 twenty years ago, that we are now just beginning an era when the 

 education of the American farmer will see more progress during 

 the next ten years, than it has in the last fifty. That may seem a 



