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buying your grain by the carload, and not of regular dealers. 

 How can this be accomplished ? Through the organization 

 of the Grange. It can be accomplished through any other 

 organization, if you had the opportunity to bring men to- 

 gether to arrange it. For instance, if you want perhaps five 

 tons of grain, you do not feel like running all over town to see 

 who wants five tons more ; but if you have a meeting where 

 it is stated upon the programme that you will call upon 

 farmers who want to buy grain, they will come together, and 

 you can see who wants to buy. And I wish the sentiment 

 might go out from this meeting, that it is of vast importance 

 to organize, even for this one object alone. It can be done, 

 and it should be done ; and you could save enough on your 

 winter's grain to enable you to go to Boston with your wife 

 and buy a good dress for your wife or daughter. This 

 result can be obtained, if the farmers will work together. 



Mr. S. A HiCKOX was then called upon, and he ad- 

 dressed the meeting as follows : — 



EEMARKS OF S. A. HICKOX. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen : — This call is very unexpected to 

 me, but, in regard to the matter before us, I do not wish to 

 seem to be unwilling to bear testimony. It seems to me that 

 this meeting of the State Board of Agriculture has been a 

 success, and first I wish to congratulate our Secretary for the 

 good judgment he has shown in the arrangement of the pro- 

 gramme ; namely, in so getting it up that the papers have not 

 consumed all the time. There has been a good opportunity 

 for discussion ; and though we find that there would have been 

 more discussion if there had been more time, we have made 

 quite an improvement on the programme of last year. In 

 regard to the paper of this forenoon, that was presented so 

 ably by Mrs. Chase, it seems to me that she gave us a true 

 picture of the qualities that constitute a home on the farm ; 

 and though I do not feel that I can add to that picture, yet I 

 would like to emphasize those ideas, and carry those thoughts 

 with me to my home and see if I cannot use them there. 

 Now, home on the farm, brothers and sisters, is a home to 

 be desired. There we have the stock, the diiferent kinds of 



