250 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



Because the peristaltic daily health of Natick is daily diluted in 

 Boston drinking-water. 



Hartford sits nervously in the lap of what was once one of the- 

 fairest and sweetest, and is now one of the filthiest valleys in the 

 world. Hartford was comparatively far-sighted. She treated 

 concentrated industries coldly, at first, but has now become the 

 focus of surrounding streams of filth. Will raising our '' rates " 

 as " risks " increase, save us ? May God help our capital city 

 towards the straight and narrow path of purity and peace, is my 

 constant prayer. 



When one who is deeply interested in a certain Theological 

 School was giving me a charming account of the physical and 

 intellectual culture of the students gathered there, I could not 

 avoid asking whether those young men were being taught, con- 

 stantly, not to soil the brook ? I have no faith in any theory of 

 goodness for this world or the next which does not include that 

 doctrine. 



How the tools of reform can be wrought and tempered in schools 

 is a constant question. Whoever heats and hammers the metal 

 must never hate it — that is certain. Youth bred in loveliness 

 should have valiant hearts of love to warm the earth and pour oil 

 upon its troubled waters. 'Luxury, like the moon, gives less light 

 and heat than it borrows. Every hive must know how to select, 

 feed, and develop its peculiar queen bees. 



Our institutions of learning and our churches need not be afraid 

 to move in this matter. It will presently be popular enough. 

 The people are coming to understand the remedy. No city or vil- 

 lage has any good reason for laughing at any other village or city, 

 because in regard to bad air and water, we are all — town and 

 country — in the same boat. 



I beg my temperance friends to examine the wide-spread causes 

 for intemperance in the light of present thought. •' Disinfect- 

 ants " are sold, now, by the written order of physicians in every 

 "no-license" town. " Will you disinfect ?" or "Will you fumi- 

 gate ?" are the frequent questions at bar. 



Maybe some Cool and calculating person, who sees how I am 

 hoeing my row here, perceives that I am missing many important 

 points in this conflict. Of course I shall fail to hit or even to hint 

 at a good many. We may remember that reforms of careless or 



