18 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



sawing, planing, morticing, boring ; the development of better 

 horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, and grain and fruit, to- 

 gether with the wonderful discoveries in applied science, have 

 placed the present generation on an eminence far higher than 

 any attained by the ancients, or by our own immediate ances- 

 tors. In respect to many of these improvements we may justly 

 claim that America excels all other countries on the globe. 

 Political liberty has proven in the highest degree favorable to 

 the development of ingenuity and boldness in invention, and in 

 rendering human labor more productive, and consequently in 

 securing for it better pay in this country than in any other. To 

 these improvements there is no end. The true farmer is still 

 rising. He is to become a renovator, and not continue an ex- 

 hauster. Wider knowledge and improved motive powers are 

 coming to him to increase his efficiency, and to place him on a 

 still higher platform of prosperity and dignity. Let the older 

 farmers take and read the journals and behold the progress. 

 Let the young men be educated and prepared for the new fields 

 that are rapidly opening. Let the motto be : " Intelligent labor 

 is the most successful labor." Upon the farm then will dwell 

 the true nobility. The mind imbued with all useful knowledge 

 of the principles of nature, the man a fixture upon the domain 

 he owns and masters, order and stability must necessarily be the 

 foundations of his kingdom and his hopes. The farmer's exam- 

 ple of industry, intelligence, peace, contentment, integrity and 

 domestic independence, health, happiness and longevity, will 

 exert a great moral power in checking the tendencies to fall into 

 the corruptions of luxury and government. So far as his influ- 

 ence extends he would inspire faith and confidence in the future, 

 and give to true liberty a sure anchor, and to our glorious 

 country a solid base of support for its unprecedented growth in 

 wealth, power and grandeur. 



