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has been abandoned, and we are bnying nine-tentlis of our 

 flour. And so with a great many other products of our soil. 

 But recently there seems to be an inclination to cultivate 

 these old crops again, and it seems to me that if, by the adop- 

 tion of the formulas of Prof. Stockbridge, we can make our 

 hills bloom again with luxuriant fields of wheat and rich crops 

 of waving corn, the old times which we now cherish so much 

 in our memories may come back again ; for, as was said here, 

 there is nothinsr more attractive to him who loves a rural life 

 than waving fields of wheat, or the long rows, standing like a 

 marshalled host, of a cornfield. 



But I merely rose in order to show that I am ready at all 

 times to manifest my interest in the prosperity of the farmer. 

 I am happy to meet the gentlemen of the Board of Agri- 

 culture of Massachusetts. In our Board, we have adopted a 

 diflferent plan in regard to public meetings from yours, and 

 we think that for our State it is better ; it might not answer 

 so well here. Your people have been educated to a higher 

 degree of agricultural knowledge than ours. They have had 

 the benefits of a Board of Ao^iiculture for a Ion*? series of 

 years. Ours is a new Board, having been in existence but 

 five years ; we could not induce our people to give three days 

 to a meeting of this kind, and therefore, instead of holding a 

 three days' meeting in one city or large village, we commence 

 to-morrow to hold three meetings, of one day each, in Rock- 

 ingham County, — at Hampton, at Kingston, and at Exeter. 

 By so doing, we reach a very nmch larger number of people, 

 and believe we are doing very much more good than we could 

 in any other way. 



Adjourned to Wednesday, at ten o'clock. 



SECOND DAY. 



Wednesday, December 1, 1875. 



The Board was called to order at ten o'clock by Dr. Loring, 

 and Hon. Marshall P. Wilder elected Chairman for the day. 



Col. Wilder, on taking the chair, said : I am happy to 

 show my face once more among you, although I do not intend 



