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the benefits which the Grange will bring to you and your 

 family. We are meeting the different combinations of the 

 country, and if you think that you are smart enough to meet 

 these organizations alone and keep yourselves whole, why, 

 you will go on until yau find that you cannot. I am convinced 

 that I cannot meet them successfully, and I believe that none 

 of us are able to meet them alone. Let us join together and 

 meet them. Never let us give up our industries nor our 

 hard labor because others say we must. If there is any 

 principle in the Grange that is not right, let us do away with 

 it. If the Legislature does not give us the protection that 

 our industry demands, we can act unitedly in bringing about 

 the laws that we need, so that producer and consumer shall 

 be dealt with alike. 



I thank you for your attention. I am glad we have heard 

 of a home on the farm. Let us think that these homes are 

 nothing more or less, if we look at them aright, than typical 

 of the home of homes ; namely, the home that we all are 

 going forward to in heaven above. 



The Chairman then called upon Mr. A. W. Cheever, 

 who spoke as follows : — 



REMAKES OF A. W. CHEEVER. 

 Friends : — I hardly feel that I have anything to say at this 

 hour that will add to the usefulness of these three days' 

 meetings. I can say for myself that I have enjoyed this 

 meeting in some respects above any other that I have at- 

 tended during the sixteen years that I have been a reporter 

 for " The New England Farmer " at these country meetings of 

 the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture. I have learned here 

 that once, away back in the early history of this Board, Mrs, 

 Ednah D. Cheney did speak before the Board of Agriculture.* 

 It was news to me. It was before I had attended. I sup- 

 posed that the lecture to-day by Mrs. Chase was the first ever 

 delivered by a lady before this organization, and I think we 

 may about as well call it the first ; for, if there was one pre- 

 vious to this, that we have all forgotten, it is safe to call this 

 the first once more. It has been my fortune, as connected 

 with the press, to be present at a good many meetings, not 



♦ Agriculture of Massachusetts, 1871, p. 156. 



