State Convention—Lessons of the Year. 
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wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, and squashes; make but¬ 
ter and cheese. Strive to adopt the best methods in whatever 
we undertake. In ordinary years, he sure that our expenses 
do not exceed our income. In every town we find some who adopt 
this plan, and who are upon the sure road to permanent success. 
Get out of the ruts. If you keep stock, keep the best, and give it 
the best of care. I believe the deacon’s success was more the result 
of regularity and care than quantity or kind of food. If you raise 
your vegetables and fruit, get the best varieties and study and prac¬ 
tice the best methods. A farmer must not go begging for work; 
an abundance is always at hand. Don’t be afraid of it. Make 
your arrangements so that every day brings its duty with a reason¬ 
able prospect of reward. 
I would present no cure-all or patent medicines for our ills, 
but would strive to infuse that old doctrine, that care, energy, and 
pluck are essential to success in all kinds of business, and in that finan¬ 
cial millennium which we all hope soon will dawn, whether our 
God will be shining silver and yellow gold, or we lovingly embrace 
the rag-baby; remember his crown will be brightest—other things 
being equal—who has most to sell. 
Secretary Field: I have been very much interested in Mr. War¬ 
ner’s paper. He has set forth many points of interest to us all. It 
is a paper that will elicit thought, if not discussion. He spoke of 
a man who was very prosperous. I would like to ask him if that 
man started without means. 
Mr. Warner: He had nothing except a wife and six children. 
Secretary Field: There was one idea occurred to me during the 
reading of that paper. He said in fattening pork he never feeds 
corn all the year around, as advanced farmers are doing. I think 
he is mistaken. None of the advanced farmers feed their stock- 
hogs corn through the year. I call it advanced farming in feeding 
hogs, to have a good clover-pasture, oats, or some other green feed 
on which they can run through the summer, feeding no corn; 
abundance of green feed and plenty of water. Kept on such food 
they do better; make better pork, and certainly at much less ex¬ 
pense. Another point of vital interest is, that whatever our income 
may be, live within it. I fully appreciate it. When I came to 
