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what a pleasurable feeling goes through the system when you 

 see your cattle feeding on grass rather than on bushes. In 

 the second place, I wished to pay a tribute to a man whose 

 character has been so bitterly assailed in the heat of partisan 

 warfare, but who was alwavs faithful to the interests of aofri- 

 culture. I do not suppose there is a man who has lived in 

 this country who, for the last twenty-five years has done so 

 much to promote the interests of farmers, througli his personal 

 example and his lectures and writings, as this man who has 

 so recently deceased. We should forget his errors as a poli- 

 tician, and remember him hereafter as the great former of the 

 country ; a man who knew a great deal about farming, and 

 who was specially devoted tq the promotion of the interests of 

 that class of the people who live by the labors of their hands 

 in the fields. 



President Clark. In order to make a point in regard to 

 my lecture last night, and in order that the farmers of Barre 

 may properly appreciate the arduous labors of my friend (and 

 he is a very industrious man when at home), I want to explain 

 what hardback is. I went to see him once, and observed a 

 field covered with bushes. I opened my eyes at once, and 

 said I, "Why do you have that field covered with brush?" 

 Said he, "That is hardback." I said, "That is not hardback 

 in our country." "Well," said he, "it is hardback here." If 

 he had told mo the Latin name, which he knew as well as I 

 did, I should have known what he was talking about ; or if he 

 should use the Latin name in England, or Germany, or Spain, 

 or South America, he would be understood, for the Latin 

 names of plants are the same in all countries, and almost all 

 of the original descriptions of plants are written in Latin. 

 This plant which he calls his hardback is a plant which belongs 

 to the same order (Bosacece) with our hardback, but it is a 

 much stronger plant, and much more difficult to eradicate. It 

 grows in large clumps, three or four feet high, and is quite a 

 formidable plant. Our hardback, which can be pulled up by 

 hand, is not a circumstance to it. Our hardback is the 

 spircea tomentosa, and his hardback is called the potentilla 

 fruticosa. 



Colonel Stone. I regret that the discussion on the culti- 

 vation of fruit has been cut off", owing to the absence of the 



