512 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



J. Quick of ^Missouri g-avo liis experience and observations 

 recently in Germany on the culture of the sugar beet. A 

 resolution was adopted " favormg a bounty of two cents a 

 pound on all ])ure cane, maple and beet sugar produced in 

 the United States." The following committee was appointed 

 to advocate this interest : Walter J. Quick, Missouri ; E. 

 B. Martindale, Indiana; H, E. Heath, Nebraska; C. S. 

 Kelsey, Michigan; and II. W. Wiley, Washington, D. C. 



Ex-President Benjamin Harrison of Indianapolis was pre- 

 sented to the Congress by President Clayton, and proceeded 

 to address the body partly as follows : — 



" It is very much the custom of the times, and a natural 

 custom it is, that men of a particular vocation should asso- 

 ciate themselves together with a view to promoting their 

 interests, and not selfishly the interests of a few, but the in- 

 terests of the great class to which they belong; to study the 

 principles that underlie a successful prosecution of a partic- 

 ular calling, and to cultivate fraternal acquaintance. 



" The times are full of such associations, and I think they 

 should l)e encouraged. When men engaged in a particular 

 calling, from high motives, associate themselves together and 

 pursue the high motives in their association, only good can 

 result. But we must not forget that, when we form a law- 

 yers' association or a farmers' association of laboring men, 

 our objects and aims should not be wholly selfish. Indeed, 

 I think I may say that if we were absolutely selfish in our 

 purpose, and thought of our own good, the good of the class 

 and the individual of the class, we should find that good 

 most highly promoted by taking a broad view of things, and 

 by admitting to our deliberations this thought, — that it is 

 not possible for one class to be highly prosperous while all 

 other classes are suffering ; that there is an interdependence 

 in all our business and social relations, and this is highly 

 developed in a free government like ours. In other words, 

 we, in a broad sense, prosper together and suffer together. 



"I think that the conceit of the farmer has sometimes 

 been unduly promoted when it is said that he is at the 

 bottom of everything, and that he belongs to an independent 

 class ; that cities are not of much account ; that farms are 

 God's work, and enduring. What would the farm be with- 



