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had all along an overweening faith in the honesty of human 

 nature, forgetting that faith without good works is of but 

 little avail, and that among good works lies the faithful im 

 provement of the privilege which Providence has given each 

 class to use for its own good every legitimate means that is 

 placed in its power. 



The most available of these means are the journals devo 

 ted to the interests of agriculture, and good books. Next, are 

 his organizations, at the meetings of which he may consult 

 and debate. In short, he must first read, study, and reflect, 

 and then he may intelligently resolve, wisely remedy, and 

 thoroughly regenerate. 



One of the great means for carrying forward the good 

 work which is the immediate end and aim of the Farmers 

 Movement, is aggregation by co-operation the bringing to 

 gether of homogeneous bodies, and causing them to work 

 unitedly to a particular end. The varied industries of which 

 Agriculture consists are homogeneous. Husbandry, Stock- 

 breeding and feeding, Dairying, Horticulture (including, as it 

 does, Pomology, Arboriculture, Floriculture, Vegetable Gar 

 dening, and rural adornment) these several professions 

 make up over three-fourths in number of the population of 

 civilized communities, and ought actually to represent a con 

 trolling power in the . nation. Two reasons why they do 

 not have been stated. Another might be mentioned, the re 

 sult of their unavoidable segregation, namely, the lack of 

 cohesion among the various parts which constitute the 

 whole. 



THE POWER OF THE MONEYED CLASSES CONSOLIDATED. 



The commercial and manufacturing interests concentrate 

 their power by aggregation, as at New York and Pittsburg, 



