APPENDIX A. 
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PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. 
TRANSPORTATION, POPULATION AND TAXATION. 
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BY S. D. CARPENTER. 
Address delivered before the State Board of Agriculture, in the Assembly Chamber, 
February 5, 1874. 
Gentlemen of the Executive Board of the State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety :—In responding to the invitation of your secretary to pre¬ 
sent some facts and conclusions on these subjects (or rather subject , 
for I consider the integral parts as intimately blended in a gen¬ 
eral whole), I approach the duty with no little misgivings of my 
ability to condense such a vast and diversified subject into the 
proper limits of a single discussion, which might properly be ex¬ 
tended to a treatise of tiresome duration. Still, as the field is 
under culture by an active, public mind, I will endeavor, with the 
limited means at my command, to do my humble part of the 
great work. 
Public interest is suggestive of public duty. Individual inter¬ 
est generally, is public interest, for in the nomenclature of polit¬ 
ical science, a state is nothing but the 'people of the state, and that 
generally which concerns the common interests of the people in¬ 
dividually, is also of moment to the people collectively. It may 
be stated as a truism of political science, that the interests and 
welfare of the people, in all that pertains to productive energy and 
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