Palmyra High School - Yearbook (Palmyra, WI)

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The Ggriculiurcxl Glass The Agricultural class of 1904 have rented two acres of land near the High School and are suc- cessfully cultivating -the same. They have rye, corn, oats, potatoes and garden vegetables progress ing finely. We believe in uniting the practical with the theoretical. By the almost illiniitable extent of our fertile lends, by tradition, by the number and character of our people engaged in farming, by the amount and excellence of our agricultural surplus, we are an agricultural nation. Agriculture is easily the pa.ra,rnount industry of the United States. It is by our agriculture that. we are distin- guished above all other nations Agricultural supremacy and ascendancy is the natural, logical and manifest destiny of this nation. Agriculture, unaided and unprotected, is exporting one thousand millions of surplus its against tive hundred millions of all manufactures und other commodities together. VVe are capable, naturally capable, without artiiicial aid, without bounties or tariffs of increasing this enormous surplus almost indeginite- . . . . . . . . 1 7 . , A 1 '. ly. Agriculture is in fact and of right lmperial among the inoust-ries of the Lmted btates. The sphere o ag.: 1- culturul influence extends to the legislation affecting agriculture or the relations of agriculture to other indus- tries of the country, and that influence is, and should be, preponderant.- William Mclimley. We have also a set of weather flags which we exhibit according to the reports from Washing- ton. Willson, flagman.

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