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stantial food. The greatest praise of our government is 

 that in Connecticut there are thousands of farmers quite 

 as content as myself, and whose doors, like mine, are never 

 locked." 



Today the farm on which that happy man once 

 lived is cut up into city streets and covered with city 

 buildings. The men and women of Hartford no longer 

 produce their own food, clothing, and shelter. They 

 work for them in stores and offices and factories. And 

 in that same city, descendants of that pioneer farmer 

 are probably walking the streets, not knowing what 

 to do in order to be able to secure food, clothing and 

 shelter. 



