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There the delegates were photographed, and there Mr. 

 Whitney, the general passenger agent of the railroad, who 

 accompanied the delegates, was put into a wagon, to which 

 ropes were attached, and was hauled in triumph through the 

 town to the Grandin Farm and back. 



After a stop of two hours the train started southward, 

 passing through extensive wheat fields, at one of which there 

 was a halt, to visit the threshers, reapers and binders at 

 work, and there another photograph of the delegates was 

 taken. 



At Wahpeton the delegates stopped for supper at the 

 hotel. Wahpeton is on the banks of the Red River, some 

 sixty miles south of Fargo, and our last stop in North 

 Dakota. 



After supper the delegates gathered upon the platform at 

 the station and sang "My country, 'tis of thee," while the 

 engine was taking fuel and water. 



The writei' turned to a Nebraska man at its finish, and 

 said, "That is a good New England hymn," and after the 

 prairie ride of the past two days he longed for the "rocks 

 and rills, the woods and templed hills " as he never longed 

 for them l)efore. 



On leaving Wahpeton the train crossed the Red River to 

 Breckenridge in Minnesota, bidding adieu to North Dakota, 

 the Red River valley, w^hich has aptly been called " the 

 bread-basket of America." 



The return from thence to St. Paul was at night, so the 

 excursionists had no opportunity of seeing the country 

 passed through, and the train reached St. Paul depot on 

 Sunday morning, forty-eight hours after starting out upon 

 the 700-mile trip. 



On the train a memorial w^as subscribed to by the del- 

 egates, for Mr. Whitney, and resolutions of thanks were 

 passed to the Great Northern Railway Company for the 

 courtesy of the trip, which at regular fares would have 

 amounted to more than $10,000. 



Monday morning, September 6, the Farmers' National 

 Congress held a short session in the State Capitol, passed 

 several com[>limcntary resolutions, made the retiring presi- 

 dent a life member, finished its business, and adjourned, to 

 meet at Fort Worth, Tex., in December, 1898» 



