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for the time being to depress the price, until they can get a suffi¬ 
cient quantity to enable them to dictate prices. Sometimes prices 
are inflated entirely beyond what either reason or common sense 
would dictate. Now if you are as thoroughly conversant with the 
real facts in such a case as you may be, and ought to be, you are 
able to judge correctly whether the depression that is taking place 
in a certain product, is in consequence of an actual over supply, or 
whether it is only the result of a bear movement among some 
shrewd speculators, and to be followed by an opposite or bull 
movement as soon as they think they can dictate prices. If it be 
the former, you will refuse to sell, and quietly wait until the proper 
time arrives. 
Gentlemen, it is not necessary that I should follow these topics 
farther. You will readily see that other things being equal, the 
more intelligence a man has, the more certain is he to w 7 in success. 
And this rule will hold good in every branch or department of 
the farm. 
In closing let me say, as industry is better than indolence, I 
would have the farmers industrious. As temperance is better than 
drunkenness, they should be temperate. As virtue is better than 
vice, they should be virtuous. As truth is better than falsehood, 
they should be truthful. As a pleasant, comfortable home, is even 
better than the cheerless abode, where ignorance and poverty reign, 
I would that your homes should be the abodes of peace, happi¬ 
ness and plenty. And as the right is ever nobler, as well as bet¬ 
ter than the wrong, I would have you ever in the right. And 
that you may attain these ends I would have you truly intelligent. 
This paper was somewhat lengthy, and owing to want of space 
is not given in full. It was listened to with that marked atten¬ 
tion which its merit deserved, and is worthy a careful perusal. 
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