1Q^ BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



$1,000 for two years ; Maryland and Virginia have appropriated 

 liberally, and Massachusetts has paid out about $25,000 annually 

 for several years. 



Each State should establish a legislative agricultural society, 

 where, during the sessions of the legislature, the general interests 

 of the profession may be freely discussed b}^ practical and scientific 

 men, and especially by the legislators themselves. 



The agricultural education of our youth should no longer be 

 made a secondary matter. Establish such schools, colleges, or 

 model-farms, as will enable them to unfold the mysteries which 

 surround us, — and bring to light the hidden secrets of the earth 

 and air ! These things may be done, men and women of New 

 Hampshire, by you — they lie in your power. If you will it, the 

 work will go on— if you are indifferent, the earth will refuse her 

 increase, and your children will be scattered abroad. 



But a true patriotism — love of country and home, the memory of 

 those who have fought your battles and achieved your victories, 

 of your scholars, statesmen, philanthropists and noble women, — 

 all forbid this desecration of the soil, and the mind ! Abandon not 

 your grand scenery, your noble rivers and mountains for the turbid 

 waters and miasma of western lands. Like the Swiss for his early 

 songs, and rocks, and glens, you would languish for your native 

 hills, and be glad to return to them with the ardor of a first love. 

 Your soil, and climate, urge you to speed the plow. Nature has 

 done all for you that you ought to ask. She has given you a fertile 

 soil, swiftly running waters, bright suns and an invigorating 

 atmosphere. Your hills are crowned with noble forests, your 

 plains swell with corn in its season, and your valleys are covered 

 with the other great New England staple, grass. 



For the products of all these, your extended sea-coasts ofier you 

 an outlet to the markets of every clime, — so that you can say, with 

 the poet, 



" No pent-up Utica contracts our powers ; 

 Tho wliolo boundless Continent is ours !" 



No other climate produces so large a variety of wholesome and 

 delicious vegetables, or a finer display of beautiful and fragrant 

 flowers and fruits, denied the masses in most lands, are common 

 upon your tables. 



Reared among your native hills, your frames are firm as the 

 granite on their sides, and yet as elastic as the breezes which 

 sweep their brows. Fitted, then, to tho work before you, make it 



