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and losses and wrongs. The position and influence of farmers 
will depend, finally, on the amount of intelligence they possess. 
Mind rules the world, not numbers and not brute strength. Far¬ 
mers have it in their own hands whether, as a class, they will stand 
at the head or the foot of the column. But true, permanent suc¬ 
cess will come neither to the individual nor the class by tricks nor 
unworthy means. Stand firmly for every right; work earnestly 
for the repeal of every unjust law, and for the enactment of just 
laws. Oppose by voice and vote all wrong, and equally earnestly 
work for all that is right; but ever remember that legislation 
alone cannot make farming successful; that class legislation will 
finally work disaster. Far above any benefit from special'legis¬ 
lation or from any attempt to arbitrarily affect prices, let far¬ 
mers as individuals and as a class, keep before them the good that 
will come in all their efforts to win success from making use of 
the three words Industry, Intelligence and Integrity. 
FISH CULTUBE. 
Read before the State Agricultural Convention in February, 1873. 
BY ALFRED PALMER, BOSCOBEL. 
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Fish, although producing a large proportion of the food of the- 
human family from the earliest period to the present time, are more 
neglected than any of our food producing animals. 
In fact, so little attention has been paid to them, that many, 
even intelligent people, do not know how they propagate their 
species, and, but comparatively few know that many of our best 
fish can be transplanted, acclimated and domesticated, with more 
ease than any of the domestic animals; that their eggs can be sent 
a long distance, and hatched with more certainty, than those of 
the barn yard fowj. 
The brook trout, though the wildest of fish, when domesticated, 
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