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can advertise free of charge, whatever he may wish to bring to 
the fair to sell. Thus farmer A. gives notice that he will have for 
sale at the fair, a new milch cow. Farmer B., that he will offer a 
span of roadsters in exchange for work horses. Housewife C., 
that she will contract to furnish a familv or two with butter for 
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the next-quarter; and so on. 
Thus a wide-awake holiday is had picnic fashion, and buyers 
and sellers are brought together. A registry of bargains and sales 
is kept during the fair, in which, when the parties desire it, is 
briefly noted the nature of the trade. Price, terms, conditions, 
representation and warranties are set down in a book designed and 
kept for the purpose, and made evidence of the transaction. The 
expense of holding such a fair would be but trifling, and could be 
met by a small admission fee. This custom once started and ad¬ 
hered to till established, would, I am satisfied, be found pleasant 
and convenient, and would pay. 
Touching co-operation in the production and sale of agricultural 
products, I shall, for want of~ time, offer but few suggestions. 
Whatever union of effort is practicable among a class whose hab¬ 
its of thought, life and labor are so unassimilative must be ap¬ 
proached gradually. Co-operation in the manufacture and sale of 
cheese is an assured success. Whenever established and man¬ 
aged with ordinary prudence, the cheese factory has made better 
cheese at less expense than was produced in the old way, which 
made the housewife’s labor more toilsome than that of a galley 
slave. The, demand upon the west for this article of food is con¬ 
stantly increasing. The creamery, or butter factory, is equally 
practicable, and can be established with about the same outlay. 
The requisition upon the west for butter is growing larger each 
year ; and in this direction, it seems to me, lies the Wisconsin 
farmer’s pathway to better times. My boyhood was spent in 
Franklin county, Vermont, now famed in all markets for its but¬ 
ter. On one of those rugged farms where the land was turned up 
edgeways, so that one acre by survey gave two of surface—but 
about one and a quarter of bare rock—I used to sit down on a 
three-legged stool, after a hard day's work, and rest myself milk¬ 
ing from a dozen to twenty cows. As long ago as I can remem¬ 
ber, the farmers there were poor. It took the combined labor of 
