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what the increase of the value of the land makes them worth. I 
don’t know how you are going to obviate this until you increase the 
population and have the consumption at home. I think were our 
young men taught to honor farming as we honor it ourselves, who 
preach up that farming has something good and independent in it, 
that we should find our farmers would remain there instead of go¬ 
ing olf into the towns and villages. It is our fault that our boys 
don’t stay at home. It is our fault that our daughters are thrum¬ 
ming on pianos. We are responsible for our children, not our chil¬ 
dren for us, and they are what we have made them. 
Mr. Anderson: In listening to this able paper I was very much 
interested, but I felt very sorry that our hall was not as well filled 
to-day as it was yesterday, because I do think that was the ablest 
paper I have ever listened to, one in which we, the farmers of Wis¬ 
consin, are more interested in than in anything else. It certainly 
does show us that we must keep up the fertility of the soil. That 
is something I have been preaching year after year. I don’t claim 
any mystery for farming; and if I have not made any money for 
the last five or six years, the cause was the drought or the insects, 
I do claim that the fertility of my soil has increased from year to 
year, and my farm will, in any ordinary season, produce double 
what it did fifteen years ago. 1 have done it by feeding stock. I 
have no grain to sell. I buy largely of coarse grain and hay, al¬ 
though one year I raised over two hundred and sevent 3 T -five large 
loads of clover-hay, I bought hay that same season. In this coun¬ 
try, the only thing that I know of that we can do to keep up the 
fertility of our soil, is to depend upon the barn-yard manure; that 
must be made by feeding grain to live-stock, to sheep and cattle, 
horses and hogs. This article of grass we are very much interested 
in. I received from Germantown, in the summer, a package of or¬ 
chard-grass, but I was not as successful in raising from that pack¬ 
age as I wished. I intend to try the orchard-grass again. I am 
advised that we must be careful where we get our seed; that there 
is danger of this twitch-grass, which I am not acquainted with, 
among the orchard-grass. I am going to sow about thirty acres 
next year of alsike clover. The land is rich and well adapted to 
it. About sixteen j T ears ago I sent east to get some of that grass. 
It is certainly a good grass for pasture. I cannot compete with 
the cheap lands of northern Minnesota in raising wheat. I can- 
