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spotted, but for the better reason that mine were smooth built, 
compact in form, with heavy quarters, such as packers like to 
have and will pay the highest price for. 
In conclusion, let me urge upon the farmers of our state one 
fact, namely, that we as a class are growing by far too much grain 
for our own welfare and the good of our country. John Randolph 
told the planters of tobacco in Virginia that they were barreling up 
the wealth and treasures of the state and sending them off to Eng¬ 
land. Is not this warning to-day applicable to many of us. Much 
corn that is grown on western lands is converted into pork and 
beef in the eastern states, and even across the Atlantic. It has 
often been said that Cincinnati owes its great wealth in making 
the discovery of a method of putting fifteen bushels of corn in a 
three bushel barrel, and sending it to distant markets. This was 
done by means of the hog. Many of us must adopt this discovery 
soon, either from choice or necessity. No one thing is more patent 
than that all our surplus grain should be consumed on the farm 
where raised, and sent to market after being transformed into the 
dairy or in the other form of wool, mutton, beef or pork. Farmers' 
of Wisconsin, let me ask you if we persist in the heedless, reckless 
way that we have followed for the past twenty years, what will 
the end be? Recollect, no man should live for himself alone. 
The state that has extended over us her arm of protection, the 
public welfare that should not go unheeded, our children, the 
rising generation, all demand of us that we leave our homes and 
farms at least as good as we found them. Then can we close our 
labors, feeling that we have been faithful over a few things and 
with a peaceful hope of being called to higher trusts. * 
