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The MerrimacTv, Contoocook, Peraigewasset, and other 

 smaller streams, afford sites for factories almost countless. 

 "We possess water power sufficient to employ capital to 

 an amount that can hardly be enumerated. And that en- 

 terprise and that abundant capital existing in the country, 

 will not suffer those privileges to be long unoccupied and 

 unimproved. 



The success of our manufactures is not now a problem 

 to be discussed, but a fact to be recorded and to be consid- 

 ered in our reasoning on the future prosperity of the 

 country. The rapid and wonderful growth of our manu- 

 factures is favorable to agriculture. The manufacturing 

 interest is not to be regarded as the enemy, but the friend 

 of the agricultural interest. It is not in the order which 

 God has established in the world, that the great and lead- 

 ing interests of society should be hostile and adverse to 

 each other's prosperity. Nature has made the interests of 

 agriculture, commerce and manufactures one. 



To commerce and manufactures the national government 

 has been liberal, indeed munificent, and by their prosperity 

 agriculture has been incidentally benefited. Butthep, ov- 

 ernment of this State has done but very little for the en- 

 couragement of agriculture, and that very little very grudg- 

 ingly. 



We cannot expect any farther legislative patronage. An 

 opinion prevails with those who are sent to represent the 

 agricultural interests in the legislature, that our societies, 

 shows and fairs are not merely useless, but are productive 

 of much actual positive mischief. 



Whatever is to be done, therefore, to improve the agri- 

 culture of the State, must be done by private contribu- 

 tions and individual exertions, until among the other im- 

 provements which the people of this State, sooner or later, 

 will most certafnly make, shall be their improvement of 

 the stock and quality of the animals they send to the leg- 

 islature. The objects proposed to be attained by the es- 

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