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undeveloped resources of your farms and lead nature out and up, 

 rather than let her drag you down with receding crops. 



In conclusion, I want to thank my friends for their very 

 patient attention to my address, and their cordial greeting. I 

 desire to make a special note of the large sprinkling of young men 

 present, a rare event at farmers' meetings. The new agriculture 

 requires a new or a trained race of men equipped with philosophy, 

 art, energy, a broader ambition and a deeper love of nature, ab- 

 sorbed more with love of family and of the State, and less self- 

 centered than the old race of farmers. It is not wise for me to 

 select your industry. If you desire to enter a vocation that will 

 call out your highest intellectual activities and occupy them most 

 broadly, that will unite with a bread-winning industry the one in 

 its newer intellectual development most fascinating because ever 

 dealing with the forces of nature, that will give the finest physical 

 and moral training, that calls out the mercantile and executive 

 faculties, and that gives permanency to the family and its social 

 status, and longest life, then, in the language of Parton, select agri- 

 culture, if "You are big enough." 



Wishing you and your State a happy and strong future, I carry 

 back to the reluctant, abiding and beautiful hills of New Hampshire 

 a very pleasing memory of this greeting of yours and of the growth 

 of your educational system, especially as exemplified in your State 

 Board of Agriculture and State College of Agriculture, and evolv- 

 ing primary and secondary agricultural and educational work. 



WHAT THE ABERDEEN ANGUS BREED HAS DONE TO 

 IMPROVE THE BEEF CATTLE OF AMERICA. 



(Geo. Kitchen, Gower, Mo.) 



This breed, which is now so well known in the United States 

 and Canada, originated in two small countries (Aberdeen and 

 Angus) in Northeast Scotland. So far as can be learned, the polled 

 type always existed in these countries, although it is known that 

 about the time marked improvements began (1808), two fairly 

 distinct types existed. The smaller type was of a black color, very 

 hardy, and strong in polled tendency, for we learn that three con- 

 secutive crosses of Shorthorn blood could be made without disturb- 

 ing the polled characteristics. The other type was also polled, but 

 larger, and inclined to be brindled or reddish brown, on the back 



