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than great bulletins, and horses, steers, 

 sheep and swine topping markets because 

 bred and fed right, and then see how little, 

 relatively, it all amounts to in the com- 

 munity at large, men's apathy and gainsay- 

 ing, farms run down and sold for debt, 

 shiftless tillage, breeding males unfit even 

 for the shambles, cows not paying for their 

 keep, and other malpractice galore view- 

 ing all this, I say, who can blame the Hon- 

 orable Secretary of Agriculture if now and 

 then he breaks out in the psalmist's unpar- 

 liamentary language, "Understand, ye 

 brutish among the people: and ye fools, 

 when will ye be wise?" 



I reject some of the reasonings in Mr. 

 James J. Hill's Minnesota State Fair ad- 

 dress referred to in the introduction of this 

 volume. The outlook is less dark than he 

 paints. Lumbering and mining are not so 

 near their end. But the tenor of that address, 

 Mr. Hill's castigation of the country for 

 its still lingering apathy toward agriculture 

 and his solemn appeal for reform, is as just 

 as it is eloquent. 



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