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tions which are in favor of it. If we can 

 get the sentiment of the State in the way of 

 reasoning that the government of New 

 York should do as much for agriculture as 

 for any other interest or even a little 

 more, and if we will lay hold of accumu- 

 lated knowledge and apply it, and if we 

 will organize a system of education which 

 will support it, the somewhat heavy task 

 may in time be accomplished. 



Our Natural Advantages 

 There are natural advantages in our fa- 

 vor of which we are either unmindful or to 

 which we give no fair value. Take for ex- 

 ample the hills, the woods, the rocks, and 

 the streams, the materials for building and 

 for roads, the topographical, climatic, es- 

 thetic, healthful, and moral factors con- 

 nected with them. I have lived for ten 

 years in the Middle West upon a prairie 

 where one could see the headlight of a loco- 



