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buys by the cargo instead of by the load. The price of his 
discriminations, therefore, comes back for the country to settle, 
instead of individuals. If a cargo of “Milwaukee Club,” or 
of “ Sheboygan Club ” wheat, brings more per bushel than a 
cargo from some other lake port, the sections of country mar¬ 
keting at the respective ports, receive or pay the difference, 
which falls as equally upon individuals, proportioned to what 
they raise, as taxes upon the respective valuations of the 
assessment roll. 
IN GRAZING- AND FEEDING. 
The same rules of compensation govern operations in dairying 
—woolgrowing—stock raising, and the production of pork.— 
An average success only quits costs, if it does not run the pro¬ 
prietor in debt. A yard of poor cows are only a herd of dry 
ruins —they will never reward the time and trouble expended 
upon them. The same number of good, thrifty milkers, would, 
at the same cost of subsistence and w T ith less wearing labor, 
turn a good profit. 
l r our county numbers among her farmers many enterprising 
and intelligent breeders of good stock, as the prize lists of our 
State, and of many of our County Fairs, in past years, bear 
witness; as the exhibition of choice animals here to-day, abun¬ 
dantly testifies. But how many cows, oxen, store cattle, horses, 
sheep and hogs do you suppose there are in this county, that 
are actually worth far less than the expenses of rearing them? 
Depend upon it, w T hile you have been dreaming, not in vision 
but in fact, these “ill-favored and lean fleshed” animals have 
eaten up an equal number “well-favored and fat-fleshed.” In¬ 
dividual industry and intelligence can replace every one of these 
inferior brutes, with a really valuable animal, in a short time, 
with little expense for the exchange. The gain to the private 
and aggregate wealth of your county, can be readily seen ! 
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THE VALUE OF SYSTEM IN FARM-WORK. 
The hints I have thus far presented, may be appropriately 
threaded upon one central truth, which penetrates them all.— 
