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Show V V T National prosperity originates on tho farm. Tho farmer Is tho dynamic force. This Is the reason rea-son tho farmer Is alluded to as tho "backbone of tho country." Tho welfare of tho farmer Is inseparable insep-arable from tho welfare of tho nation, and of each Individual citizen of tho nation.. A failure of any of our stnplo crops is felt throughout the world. Tho shock of failure, however, Is felt more at homo than nbroad; it Ib felt moro at the point, or section, sec-tion, of failure thnn by tho country at large; It Is folt still moro by the Individual farmer who hns failed and who tnkes hid nil to pay his debts. I). II. Osborne. |