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STATE AGEIOULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
I am compelled to buy. I want you, ladies, to make it so good that it cannot 
be spoiled even in their destructive hands. [Laughter.] It was an able ad¬ 
dress, for he was thoroughly conversant with the subject, having been experi¬ 
menting and investigating with reference to the art of making butter and 
cheese. It must have been intensely interesting to those who are engaged 
in the manufacture of butter, as it was to me. 
The other address likewise had many good things in it It was 
upon the subject of diversified labor, and recommended that you put not all 
your strength of muscle on one single article of manufacture or of agricul¬ 
ture, like the building of a specific machine, or the raising, exclusively, of 
wheat; but he thought variety in all these things was best. In this way, he 
said, and I have no doubt it is true, that it would be more profitable in the 
end, and more philosophical in the pursuit of wealth. He thought that our 
people should give some attention to manufactures as well as raising produce 
and grain. His idea was that you should stand side by side in farming and 
manufacturing; and in this way both branches would be benefitted, and there 
was great force in what he said, and you should pay attention to it. 
As the Senator has said, the agricultural interests |of the State of Wis¬ 
consin are very great. Those interests are far above any other interests in 
the country; and yet it is very strange, my fellow citizens and farmers, that 
you who are so deeply interested in this matter do not, yourselves, take more 
interest in matters which so nearly concern you. You call upon men—it is 
true you cannot devote the time to it that these men do, who do nothing else 
but study the subject in all its aspects—but you call upon these men and ob¬ 
tain your information from them. I have always found that if you wanted to 
obtain a correct opinion upon an important subject you go to some man who 
makes that subject his especial study. If you are in trouble, and want to get 
out of it, you consult a lawyer. You go to him because he makes it his pri¬ 
mary business to know more about your business than he does about his own 
business. [Laughter.] If you want medical advice you go to a doctor who 
is learned in his profession, and who knows more about your wants than you 
know yourself. But you who know any thing ubout farming are just as likely 
to go’to your next neighbor who don’t know as much as you do about the best 
method of working your farm, as to do any other way. 
Now then, upon the subject of this Fair. This is a magnificent scene, and 
would fill the heart of any one with delight wh,o feels an interest in these in¬ 
dications of our country’s wealth and progress. Here is a grand display of 
agricultural and mechanical implements. Here the people come from all 
parts of the State to take notes and to see what there is to be found new and 
useful. Here, to-day and yestesday, these grounds were filled with people— 
men and women, who have come ‘up here to look, each at the particular 
objects which most especially interest them. And they must be dull indeed, 
who, after having carefully observed all the numerous objects spread before 
them here to examine, and to study, who do not go home wiser than when 
they came. You will have less money but more knowledge, who have come 
