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Annual Be port of the 
surplus annual products, particularly growers of cattle, hogs, sheep, 
and the staple cereals. Members of clubs, granges and other socie¬ 
ties would find it to their advantage to agree to take certain prod¬ 
ucts to their market town on certain fixed days of each week or 
month, and associate together for their sale. A purchaser of live 
stock can afford to pay more for a car-load purchased on the same 
day, than for the same number bought in small lots on different 
days. The markets are continually fluctuating, and the purchaser 
can make his contracts with more certaint} 7 of a reasonable margin 
of profits. Concert of action among producers is what is wanted; 
larger sales and smaller profits on each animal or article sold. 
This may decrease the number of buyers or middle-men, and if so 
all the better; their energy and talent can be directed to other 
channels of industry. 
In this connection I desire to call attention to an editorial in the 
Republican and Leader , by Charles Seymour, esq., touching the dairy 
interest of the state, and giving a brief synopsis of a discussion of 
the prominent dairymen of Vermont, which appears in this vol¬ 
ume. 
Organization among farmers, and methods to the attainment of 
this end, have been much discussed the last year, looking to bettering 
the condition of the industrial classes. Societies, including state, 
county, and so on to the town club and grange, have accomplished 
great good; and especially can I speak of the beneficial agencies of 
the state fair and state agricultural convention, now annually held 
under the auspices of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
They are all great public educators of the industrial masses. The 
annual reports of this society are more and more sought after each 
year by the thinking farmers, as they contain more practical papers 
than heretofore, and discussions at the convention of greater gen¬ 
eral interest. A mutual interchange of ideas, an intelligent, 
co-operative action on the part of those whose interests are identi¬ 
cal, is much needed. Farmers must move with the age; keep up 
with the other professions—not years behind. Individual effort 
can accomplish but little. Organization is what now moves the 
world. Combinations of capitalists go before legislatures and get 
all they ask, or prevent what they do not desire. Were farmers 
ever known to organize and ask the legislature for special privileges, 
