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crops grown by one man's efforts are astonishing. Commerce, 

 manufacturing, mining, and carrying call help from the farm, 

 and raise the price of labor. Production is hardly keeping step 

 with growth of population, which results in higher prices for 

 crops. Few of the immigrants coming to our country could do 

 the work required on the farm. They fit into other industries 

 more readily. Our agricultural colleges have broadened the 

 minds and strengthened the arms of our farmers, and increased 

 their efficiency. They have helped them into a class by them- 

 selves among farmers and have dignified their calling. 



FARMERS IN REQUEST 



The farmer is in request when the army and navy are to be 

 recruited, when the city is to be reinforced, when the professions 

 need quiet nerves and capacity for study and strain, when capital 

 and labor take their dispute to the polls, when a public man is to 

 be weighed, and when the nation settles public questions at the 

 ballot box. As a people we are quite successful in governing in 

 the country, the village, the town, and in the state outside of the 

 large cities. The cities perplex, the country assures. The 

 better education of country folk will gradually bring into counsel 

 a safe element. The future of the republic depends upon the 

 intelligence and moral rectitude of the citizen. 



DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMALS 



The development of domestic animals of all kinds for various 

 uses on different soils in varying climates has hardly been begun 

 in this country. We take the results of foreign breeders that 

 dealt with conditions quite dissimilar from most that we find in 

 this country. We must suit the animal to the pasture to reach 

 the best results, and pastures vary. Each state or group of 

 states will eventually learn by experience what animal will be 

 most profitable. No other country on earth has as much capital 

 invested in animals as we have. We look after their health and 



