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drive every enterprising young man out of the employment. They 

 will not engage in an employment that does not require intelli- 

 gence and superior mental power; but let the impression once 

 prevail in the community that intelligence, culture, educated mind, 

 is just as necessary for success in agriculture as it is in law, in 

 medicine and theology, then the farmer will have just the influence 

 which he deserves in the community. 

 Adjourned. 



SECOND DAY. 



The Board assembled at 10 A. M. 



The President. I am happy to know that there is present with 

 us a member of the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture. We 

 would be glad to hear from Mr. Lawrence of Rockingham County. 



Mr. J. F. Lawrence. It would be in v,ain for me to attempt 

 fully to express the pleasure I enjoy in being able to attend your 

 session. I know well the arduous character of the labors which 

 surround you from my own experience as a member of a similar 

 Board in a neighboring State ; and that the unfortunate circum- 

 stances preventing a larger attendance at this time must be very 

 depressing. 



I desire especially to express my satisfaction at the part which 

 your Agricultural College students take at your sessions ; and my 

 gratification with their proficiency and the excellence of their 

 training. But the contrast to me, as an inhabitant of the Granite 

 State, with our own, was not pleasant. I have never soon the 

 students of our college except once when we had a meeting at 

 Hanover, and then they were as dumb as the cattle in our fields, 

 and for the sake of arousing them 1 said I hoped I should never 

 come to the town of Hanover again to join with them in holding a 

 farmers' festival unless the boys should take part with us ; that it 

 did seem, if there was any knowledge to emanate from that college 

 for the benefit of the agriculturists of the State, we were entitled 

 to it, and the boys were the medium through which it should 

 come. I said to them, " Now when we shall come here again and 

 commence holding meetings over the State of New Hampshire, 

 let me suggest this as a topic upon which the college boys shall 

 give an essay, and I will give a premium for the best, and that is, 

 ' The producing power of the 6oil and how to increase it.' " And 

 now it does seem, after the exhibition I saw of your boys, that 

 you are not hereafter to depend alone upon your farmers, old and 



