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Dear Editor:
I believe it's a good time of the year to share the following:
The Farmer's Creed
I believe a person's greatest possession is their dignity and that no calling bestows this more abundantly than farming.
I believe hard work and honest sweat are the building blocks of a person's character.
I believe that farming, despite its hardships and disappointments, is the most honest and honorable way a person can spend their days on Earth.
I believe farming provides education for life and that no other occupation teaches so much about birth, growth, and maturity in such a variety of ways.
I believe many of the best things in life are free: the splendor of sunrise; the rapture of wide-open spaces; the exhilarating sight of our land greening each spring.
I believe true happiness comes from watching your crops ripen in the field and your children grow tall in the sun.
I believe my life will be measured ultimately by what I have done for my felow man.
I believe in farming because it makes all this possible.
-author unknown
Eileen Z. Fitzsimons
Dodgeville