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into the minds and hearts of my children, and to make them 

 understand that it is a creditable, honorable, and profitable 

 business, if conducted in the right way ; that if they would 

 stay here and wear the clothes that they would wear at the 

 West, let tobacco and rum and beer alone, they would make 

 more money and enjoy life better than they would at the 

 West. I have been so far successful, that they are all with 

 me and around me. My brothers and sisters have large 

 families, living upon the same hill ; they have instilled into 

 tlieir children the same principle, that Connecticut is the State 

 to live in ; and the result is that the taxes on the real estate 

 in that vicinity are four times what they were when I was a 

 boy with my brothers and sisters upon that hill. Now I say 

 to you here, that you can build up this Experiment Station, 

 you can do for agriculture what you should do for it in the 

 State of Connecticut. I am talking to farmers here just like 

 myself, and I tell you that you can keep your sons and 

 daughters at home, and have that happy life in your old age 

 that we are all looking forward to, with our children and 

 grandchildren about us. Now go to the legislature and ask 

 for an Experiment Station and you will get it, provided you 

 do not ask too much. Take care of it, take care of these 

 farms in the State of Connecticut, and you will be better men, 

 your children will be better, and you will enjoy your life 

 better by keeping them at home. Do it, and you will never 

 regret it. 



The question was then put on Mr. Sedgwick's resolution, 

 and it was unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Norton. The subject which was assigned to me was 

 "Associated Dairies" and "Methods of Raising Cream." 

 The latter part of this subject is one in which many people 

 are interested, but I hardly feel competent to give the infor- 

 mation which many have asked for. Of course I could give 

 you the various methods which are now in use, but that I 

 suppose is not what is desired by many people. They want to 

 liave me say what I think is the best method. That, it appears 

 to me, I am not called upon to do — am not competent to do 

 at present. It is the business of the Experiment Station, one 

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