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mighty had no other object in view in the creation of that land than 

 his occupancy or its use during his life time. Certainly we ought to 

 have enough patriotism and love for our fellow men to not export 

 that fertility which has been so abundantly given to our possession. If 

 we continue to drain our soils by the carting off of our products without 

 reimbursing them, we must necessarily deplete our soils. 



Another reason: We are better prepared to meet the question 

 of transportation in a concentrated form by feeding our products on 

 the farm than by carting it and selling it in a crop form. I use to 

 live in the Rocky Mountains. The concentration of the ores was se- 

 cured by a succession of innumerable mines, they were concentrating 

 mines by which they reduced the weight to such an extent that the ores 

 could be sent to the smelting plants, and otherwise they could not 

 have transported them at all. This same process will apply when 

 farmers understand that a bushel of corn weighing 70 pounds can be 

 put into five pounds of beef, and so on through the entire list, including 

 the greatest concentration, the dairy product, and they will see the eco- 

 nomical aspect of this question in the matter of shipment of our stock 

 as compared with our grain products. 



Therefore, for two reasons, I think we should feed the products of 

 the farm on the farm rather than to sell them in their crop condition, 

 from the fact that we maintain the fertility of our soil thereby and can 

 concentrate our produQt so that we are not so heavily taxed in getting 

 it to the market. These are the two ideas I advance, and thank you 

 for your attention. 



NEW METHODS. 



(Hon. M. V. Carroll, Sodalla. Mo.) 



When I begun to consider the subject assigned me as a preliminary 

 to the preparation of this paper, I was undecided whether I should feel 

 complimented over the fact that its boundaries are as limitless as the 

 ocean, or regret that the starting and stopping points were not more 

 clearly defined. I have heard that in political meetings, where the man- 

 agers have to deal with a verbose, long-winded individual, they aim 

 to make him chairman and thus curb his talking propensity. Were this 

 theory applied I should feel complimented that the program committee 

 had sufficient confidence in my bent for concentration to assign me a 

 subject practically devoid of limitations. 



The sphere of operations covered by the two organizations repre- 



