28 MASSACHUSETTS AGRIGULTURE. 



hope must lie in a great part with you, — with the agricultural 

 commuuities which invest the great centres of industry with 

 the verdure of fertile soil and the homes of cheerful labor. 

 Science will aid you who come nearest to nature to come 

 nearer still. A wholesome pride in your profession, a more 

 thorough knowledge of the laws among which it works, 

 continually increasing skill to alleviate its hardships and 

 increase its comforts, all this you may expect it to give. In 

 short, it will give more power of being independent, happy, 

 wise. You will not be the dwindling estate of the realm, 

 whose golden age is over, but treasury, bench,. executive, will 

 more and more respect and honor you. It is only necessary 

 that you cherish that self-respect which is ever ready to 

 incorporate with the elements of daily life all that increasing 

 knowledge shall suggest to make it better. 



