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distance all your horses ; go and get better horses." Now I 

 say exclude those vegetables, and tell the people who bring 

 them that they must raise better. Do you say that cannot be 

 done ? I say it can be done ; it only requires men who under- 

 stand their business. It is hard to raise all these things to per- 

 fection. I grant that it is a hard and difficult thing to run a 

 farm successfully. I said at table to-day, that it used to be 

 believed that a farmer could take his smart boys and make 

 ministers, lawyers and doctors of them, and make farmers of 

 the boys that were left — make farmers of the fools. The fact is, 

 you want the smartest boys to make farmers ; if a man does 

 not know his business he cannot succeed. 



Dr. Nichols told us that the farmer could make this manure 

 that he recommended. I do not see how. It is easy for him 

 to make it, but could a man take hold of it and learn as he 

 could. Now we can do this thing. My business takes me to 

 almost every part of the State, and I have noticed, as I have 

 gone around, how many farmers there are who feed themselves 

 and their families with pork and various other articles of food 

 that are not among the most healthful, and upon whose tables 

 I have rarely found any other vegetables than a potato, and pos- 

 sibly a cabbage, when there are at least twenty varieties of 

 vegetables, some of them most delicious, which can be raised 

 just as well as a potato or a cabbage. The wonder to me is, 

 that you scarcely find a garden, go right through Massachusetts, 

 that has asparagus, that has cauliflower, that has celery, that 

 has the egg-plant, and so I might go on and enumerate vege- 

 table after vegetable that you rarely find in a farmer's garden. 

 If they are a luxury, why shouldn't we have them for our 

 own use, to say nothing about raising them for market. Just 

 look at the matter of cauliflower. I grant they are a little 

 capricious, but look at it ; I sell my surplus for from twenty-five 

 to fifty cents a head. They will yield about as well as cabbages ; 

 they will not all head as well as cabbages ; but suppose half of 

 them head, what a crop it is. There is no more delicious 

 vegetable than the cauliflower. Do you ask if there is a 

 demand for them ? The public cannot get enough of them. 

 These are all within our reach, even if we do not want to grow 

 them for profit, but I take it farmers, like other men, want to 

 make all the money they fairly and honestly can. Some of us 



