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I am most sixty years old, and if I live for the next ten years I 
am going to farm it; and I think I will know more at the end of 
the ten years.than I know now about farming. 
Mr. Wood. It seems to me I must keep even with this conven¬ 
tion. It seems to me that Mr. Smith’s paper is characteristic of the 
man as I have got acquainted with him through the u Western 
Farmer A I think his paper read to-day is of far less importance to 
us, than simply what he has given us through the years past, in his 
giving us the kinds of market garden products that he has been cul¬ 
tivating at Green Bay. I have been home-sick ever since we lost 
the a Western Farmer ” and I don’t know what we are going to do 
about it. It seems to me it would be well to take some action in 
this convention with reference to it. I believe we had the best ag¬ 
ricultural paper in the United States, without exception. I had got 
acquainted with a number of friends I never had seen, through the 
columns of that “ Western Farmer A I believe the state of Wis¬ 
consin can support the paper, and I believe if it had been left to the 
people of the state of Wisconsin, they would have made great ef¬ 
forts, rather than have the change that has taken place. I believe 
if it had been necessary I could have brought up a fine addition to 
the list of subscribers. 
Now there is one other question. I have heard Mr. Anderson for 
two years past telling us how badly off we are as farmers, how we 
are imposed upon; but I must acknowledge that in his statement 
he didn’t describe my own case at all. The great trouble with him 
at the present time is I think the railroads and corporations that 
are so grievous upon us—that they charge him so much freight 
per bushel for shipping his wheat off to market. The trouble is I 
find in getting the wheat, and I shall not quarrel with them until 
I have something to ship. I don’t feel that it is a great crying evil 
pressing the vitals out of the whole community; but I feel we have 
a hopeful surrounding pictured to us by Mr. Morrow and Mr. 
Smith. I go out to my work cheerfully and I am interested in the 
results of each day’s work. I work cheerfully and feel that I am 
pretty well off after all, and I believe we all are. I feel that much 
of this talk that we have indulged in does not correctly describe 
the circumstances. It may be possible that farmers make less per¬ 
centage, but they have less risks, and I believe if you follow up- 
