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dation of our national prosperity, we should strive 

 to promote the most intelligent conditions on the 

 farms to the end that our material prosperity may be 

 large and perpetual. 



Yet the qualification that has already been made 

 must not be forgotten. All this education, as far 

 as it involves the raising of larger crops, and an in- 

 crease in productiveness of the land, would be ca- 

 lamitous unless the farmer also had the power to 

 fix the price of his products. But with this power 

 assured, and the American Society of Equity will 

 assure it, the more education and the larger produc- 

 tion there are, the better will it be for all. The two 

 things hang together. The farmer must control the 

 present supply before he devotes himself to the work 

 of increasing it. And the greater his success in in- 

 creasing it, the greater is the necessity that he should 

 have the situation wholly within his own control. 



