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and they set out all the rest — forty trees. Ten years afterwards, 

 he stated publicly that those ten trees that the gardener set out 

 that day were worth ten times as much as the forty trees he set 

 out in one day. This is but an illustration, gentlemen, of the 

 fact, that it is by care and attention to the products of the soil 

 that we can hope to realize satisfactory and profitable results. 

 If we wish to make men and women of our children, we must 

 give them care and attention in their childhood, and bring them 

 along step by step as they increase in years. But, gentlemen, 

 I see before me some men of high culture, and this part of the 

 subject I shall of course leave to them. 



With these remarks I leave the discussion to others more 

 able than myself. 



Mr. Goodman. I merely rise to say that Col. Waring, of 

 Newport, whose name appears on the programme for to-morrow, 

 to open the discussion on Farm and Garden Vegetables, sup- 

 posed, through some misunderstanding, that he was to speak 

 to-day, and is present. As he will not be able to be here to- 

 morrow, I hope that we shall have an opportunity to hear him 

 now. 



Mr. Slade. I move that Col. Waring be invited to address 

 the Board at this time. Carried. 



Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., of Ogden Farm, Newport, R. I. 

 I have listened with much interest to the remarks of the gen- 

 tleman who has preceded me, on the subject of the preparation 

 of land for grass ; and although my intention had been to speak 

 on the subject of the cultivation of garden vegetables as a farm 

 crop, — a most important branch of the industry of this neigh- 

 borhood, — I think I may be allowed to vary my plan, and to 

 speak also on the question of the preparation of land, not only 

 for grass, but for all crops. 



Dickens has said, that that part of the farmer's holding which 

 pays the best for cultivation is the estate which lies within the 

 ring fence of his own skull ; and it seems to me, not only that 

 each of us may, in our own operations, derive, in the end, the 

 greatest profit from the cultivation of our own minds, as busi- 

 ness men and as farmers, who intend to make use of our best 

 faculties in carrying on the operations connected with our 

 business, but that, as a Board of Agriculture, you, gentlemen, 

 will do more good to the agricultural interests of the State of 



