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enjoy, is the point that we would set forth in discussing the 

 farmer's home, and that it should be a home truly worthy of 

 being the pride and the pleasure of every citizen of the State, 

 a home abounding in good cheer, enriched with fruits and 

 adorned with flowers, a center of intelligence and industry, 

 the abiding place of plenty and love, ever held in affection- 

 ate remembrance by those who go out from it and to which 

 they often return with willing feet. 



" Associated Dairies — Methods of Raising Cream " — by 

 Edward Norton, the manager of the most successful cream- 

 ery, I believe — I say it without fear of contradiction — in the 

 country, considering the length of time the business has 

 been conducted, the general success of the operations, and 

 the pecuniary profit of those who patronize it. The Farm- 

 ington Creamery, under the charge of Mr. Norton, has been 

 in operation a nunaber of years. It is not a new experiment, 

 but an established success, and a new one is just opened at 

 West Hartford, under his care, with all the modern improve- 

 ments. I trust that Mr. Norton will demonstrate to us the 

 way out of many of the difficulties that embarrass our dairy- 

 ing operations at present in the State of Connecticut. 



" Farming as it was, as it is, and as it should be," by L. F. 

 Scott, of Bethlehem. Some few of you are acquainted with 

 Mr. Scott, and I trust that he will be able to present his sub- 

 ject in such a way that you will feel a good deal better 

 acquainted with him than you do now, and we shall get some 

 practical ideas from a practical man. 



" The Adaptation of Agriculture to the Improvements in 

 Implements, Machinery, and Transportation," by Prof. Wm. 

 H. Brewer. The increased facilities of transportation, the 

 introduction of improved agricultural implements and ma- 

 chinery, have unsettled all our ideas of the value of land, 

 from its location I mean, in relation to its proximity to mar- 

 kets. And this applies not only to lands in New England, 

 but to land in the State of New York, in all our eastern 

 States, even reaching to Ohio, and still farther west, and 

 above all is it affecting the agricultural industries of the old 

 world. Its effects there are almost revolutionary, at present. 



