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mation of our fellow-men. I would not advocate exclusive 

 attention to one branch of farming. This would be putting all 

 our eggs in one basket, but let there be one leading pursuit, to 

 which all others are subservient, and with common skill and 

 industry we must excel and make for ourselves a name and 

 a place among our fellow-men. Let us all labor with the dili- 

 gence and system of the examples to which I have alluded, and 

 we shall have no complaint to make about our social position. 

 Let us act well our part, and honor will follow us as a shadow 

 does the substance. If we are only true to ourselves, our 

 country and our God, our social position will regulate itself. 



