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from year to year. It is such a system of breeding and 

 feeding stock that, while the enhanced value of animals 

 shall amply repay the labor and care bestowed, they shall 

 improve in character and quality from generation to genera 

 tion. It is such an intelligent appreciation of present condi 

 tions and future needs as, in clearing a timbered farm, shall 

 lead to sparing trees enough for farm uses, and prevent the 

 excessive denudation that will render a country arid and in 

 fertile from the want of rain and dew, or subject it to the 

 unbroken force of sweeping and frightful storms. In im 

 proving a prairie farm, it is to set about planting the neces 

 sary timber that ultimately must be among the best paying 

 crops on the farm. It is such a system of husbandry and 

 rotation, by means of a diversified agriculture, that the 

 farmer need not be dependent upon any one or two crops for 

 his wealth. It is a business tact and thrift that always en 

 ables him to sell at the highest price, or at least on a strong 

 and rising market. It is that counsel and assistance between 

 neighbor and neighbor that draws close the bond of brother 

 hood, and by co-operation renders each one in the commu 

 nity helpful each to the other. 



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It is by associated effort in Clubs, Granges, and other 

 organizations of like social nature that much of this good. 

 can be accomplished. Communities in cities unite for the 

 mutual protection of their interests ; as witness the Trades 

 Unions and similar brotherhoods. Financiers have their 

 Boards where they meet to lay plans, to deal in gold and 

 paper money, and make stocks subserve their purposes of 

 speculation. Railroad companies have their societies, and 

 their yearly conventions, at which all assemble and organize 



