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VIII.—STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION—continued. . 
Corn Raising. By N. E. Allen ... .. 211-216 
The first requisites are good lands and good seed. 211 
The saving of seed corn an important matter .212 
Harvesting and feeding..._. 214-216 
Discussion of. 216 
Rotation of Crops. By J. D. Wood . 216-227 
Furnishing the world with food an important question. 216 
Western agriculture exhaustive and must he reversed. 217 
Clover—the great fertilizer. 218 
Compensation in nature’s operations.>. 219 
A higher grade of farming indicated.i. 220 
Mechanical condition of the soil important... 221 
Short rotation desirable, returning often to clover. 222S223 
Experiment the crucible in which all theories must be tried. 224 
Co-operation the great watchword of the day. 224 
Competition, the great remedy for monopoly. 225 
Discussion of. 226-227 
Are we Consistent. By Mrs. P. Putnam . 227 
Synopsis of. 227 
Horticulture. Letter of J. C. Plumb .228-229 
The Mutual Dependence of all Human Industries. By C. D. Fox .229-237 
Each branch of industry dependent upon others. 230 
Wanted, more consumers and less producers in proportion. 231 
Encourage manufacturing. 232 
Transportation monopoly, a common foe. 233 
How are the evils to be met?. 234 
Flank them. 235 
Political action necessary. 236 
An eye to the future possibilities and probabilities of this vast continent- 237 
Farm Life—Its Hardships and Pleasures. By Mrs. Helen M. B. Huntley .238-246 
Hardships and privations will grow without culture. 238 
Farming is business in its broadest sense.238-239 
Nothing good or great accomplished without work. 239 
Hoping for success in farming without reading an agricultural paper, a mis¬ 
take . 240 
Every farm house should be a school of instruction. 240 
Housework not drudgery when skillfully done. 241 
Woman has her full shaTe to do in making farming successful. 241 
Something better to live for than the pleasures of society. 242 
No good reason why farmer’s wives should become faded before their time... 243 
Women will like farming if there is any thing onward and upward about it, 
with high, pure pleasures to be enjoyed.244 
Opportunities must be made, and succ 'SS will come to him or her w r ho makes 
them. 244 
Commendatory of. 246 
Our Boys. By Mrs. H. P. Tucker .246-251 
A subject of vital importance to every farmer. 246 
Honesty the best policy. 247 
The bread of idleness not eaten by farmers or their families.248 
For services rendered, pay your boy at Vast half w'hat yon would a stranger. 248 
Uneducated toil is like machinery without oil. 249 
The w'orld moves on, and our boys move with it. 249 
Remarks commendatory of. 250-251 
Labor. By Hon. Alexander Graham . 251 260 
Productive labor the only source of w'ealth to the state. 252 
Money the representive of w r ealth. 253 
The cultivated farmer is one who unites science and intelligence with practi¬ 
cal experience. 255 
Power of production facilitated by a division of labor.. 256 
The relation of labor to capital. 257 
Power of co-operative efforts. 258 
Mechanical labor. 258-259 
Discussion of. 260 
Industrial Education. By S. H. Carpenter, L. L. B . 261-271 
Knowledge of principles and skill in their application, two essential 
requisites to success in any avocation. 261 
Habits of loose superficial thinking in a great measure unfit men for the 
business of real life. 262 
Nothing can ever take the place of thorough intellectual discipline . 263 
