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ing, so that thought and study may be given them in a leisure 
hour which might intervene, and each and all have an opportu¬ 
nity of presenting hard facts and solid experience. In this way 
the farmers would be better educated in their business, like it 
better, think it more honorable, and make it pay better. Be¬ 
sides, these gatherings are great educators of our higher social 
natures, for one cannot meet and mingle with his neighbors on 
these interesting occasions without having the angular and rough 
corners broken and rounded off, and he or she the better fitted for 
higher social culture and improvement. 
COUNTY SOCIETIES. 
The next step should be a county organization, where the com¬ 
bined wisdom and experience of the clubs can be brought to¬ 
gether, and general county interests canvassed and discussed to 
their fullest extent. Where experience in stock and grain grow- 
iug, or other general or special farm products may be com¬ 
pared with those of different conditions and surroundings, and 
how best the farmer may surely obtain the highest price for his 
labor. This would lead to thought, study and investigation, and 
without these valuable aids, little progress will ever be made in 
agriculture or any other calling. 
STATE SOCIETY. 
A state association is now pretty well organized, under the lead 
of this society, where the educated representative men of the 
clubs and county societies should meet annually to consult, not 
only upon matters strictly agricultural, but upon all subjects 
which relate to their interests as farmers. If, upon a careful, un¬ 
prejudiced and intelligent survey of the entire situation, they 
shall come to the conclusion that agriculture doesn’t receive its 
equal share of the profits which are annually being divided in the 
different departments of labor; that unjust discriminations are 
made in favor of other pursuits and against theirs, they can advise 
together and take such steps in their own behalf as in their wis¬ 
dom shall seem to be just and right. If these industrial societies 
will unite and work together for the common good of those com¬ 
posing them, with malice towards none others, and will wield the 
