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to o'ive the oreutest amount of heat and ventilation with the 

 least consumption of fuel. A steam-boiler, whieli is only a 

 scientific tea-kettle, will hold a slice of the summer mouths 

 beneath the double roof all winter long. 



Sunshine and good cheer will prevail from cellar to attic, 

 from outer court to innermost chamber. 



The roof will not leak ; the chimneys will not smoke. 

 Rats and mice will not raise armies, and fight battles in its 

 hidden cavities. 



The kitchen will be a workshop fully equipped, a studio 

 in which the fine art of cooking will be learned and practised. 



There will be a private room for every adult, and every 

 child old enough to take care of a room. 



There will be a library full of books, and a sitting-room 

 so cosey, so interesting, so homelike and charming, that the 

 parlor, if there happens to be one, will be literally left out 

 in the cold. 



Co-operation, nineteenth-century inventions, railroads, 

 telegraphs, and telephones are bringing us nearer and nearer 

 together, are making us more and more dependent upon one 

 another, upon mutual intelligence, and good behavior. 



More and more it is the duty of every man and patriot to 

 let the light of his life and of his home illumine the world, 

 and leave it better than he found it. 



THIRD DAY. 



The meeting was called to order at ten o'clock, Mr. J Ames 

 S. Geinnell of Greenfield in the chair. 



Mr. Slade. With your permission, I would like to offer 

 the following resolution : — 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Board of Agriculture are hereby 

 given to the Farmers' Club of Southborough, and to the citizens of the 

 town generally, for their generous hospitality ou this occasion. 



I move, sir, its adoption. 



The Chairman. Before putting the question, allow me 

 to say, that I think we have great reason to congratulate our- 

 selves and the community on this most successful meeting. 

 We have had, also, the very unusual pleasure of the presence 

 of the Governor of the Commonwealth, who, as I happen to 

 know, at great personal inconvenience, made it a point to 



