654 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



lesson they teach ? That it becomes the people of Yermont 

 to make the best of what natm-e has so bounteously given 

 them, by pressing from their wasting water powers • every 

 service of which they are capable. 



What tlie futm-e will add to our present productions 

 depends entirely upon how thoroughly the water powers of 

 the State are utilized. A member of the Eoyal College of 

 London, in a work upon the coal question, tells us that the 

 greatness of the British nation hangs upon " a few lumps of 

 dirty coal." Is it not equally true that we of Yermont are 

 to draw our future prosperity from the thousand streams 

 that run down our mountains and through our valleys? 



