Miscellaneous addresses. 
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Want is a stern master; and if the first settler did skin a little 
with grain, it was that his cabin might rise, and that his naked¬ 
ness might be clothed. With increasing capital, animals—those 
locomotive fertilizers—will browse on every hill side, and will re¬ 
turn to the yearning soil that which has been filched from it. The 
farmer is too sagacious to deteriorate his property, except from 
dire necessity. 
If any one here present has caught the flimsy and unconnected 
threads of these remarks, let him tie them in a love-knot and 
dedicate it to unadulterated nature and her chief cook and bottle- 
washer, the farmer; of all workers, the least pretentious; of all 
workers, the most deserving. 
When another year shall have rolled around, and you are come 
together with your cows and your pin-cushions, your hogs and 
your horses, your pumpkins and your pleasant faces, may you 
have an address more worthy of your generous attention. 
ADDRESS 
Delivered at Dane County Fair, Sept., 1872, 
BY WILLIAM It. TAYLOR, COTTAGE GROVE, PRESIDENT STATE AGRICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
Fellow Citizens: 
Near the close of another season, when the farmer and fruit¬ 
grower are able to estimate the result of the year’s planning and 
labor, we are met in this annual festival to celebrate our successes 
—to compare with each other in friendly rivalry, the fruits 
of our various industries and skill, and to study such lessons as 
the occasion offers. If in the agricultural and horticultural de¬ 
partments of industry, we have less to boast of than in some other 
years, the severe drouth has spared us the mortification of ascrib¬ 
ing it wholly to our own inefficiency—an apology which, thanks 
to a Providence bountiful in the good things of fertile soil and an 
unusually favorable climate is only now and then furnished us. 
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