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culture of our State. As I said before, we welcome, too, 

 the representatives of our Experiment Station, which gives 

 to our farmers an idea of how best to cultivate their lands, 

 how best to fertilize their crops, how best to understand 

 and protect them, all of which has helped to advance agri- 

 culture, especially in the past few years. 



And we rejoice to welcome the representatives of the 

 grange, that mighty factor in our State and nation, which 

 has brought happiness and comfort to so many of our 

 farmers' homes, giving to them social and educational ad- 

 vantages and in a large measure the financial improve- 

 ment which they have so much desired. 



And we welcome also the representatives of our agricult- 

 ural and daily press, and recognize what a mighty factor they 

 have been and are to-day in advancing the cause of agricult- 

 ure. 



Our farmers to be successful must more and more bring 

 thought and intellect into recognition, as well as nerve 

 and muscle. Many of the farms of New England are rough 

 and uneven and our winters are long and severe; and yet, 

 if the farmer will give to his work the same thought, the 

 same care, the same perseverance that men give to the work 

 and management of other industries that are successful, he 

 can give to his family a pleasant and comfortable home, 

 he can educate his children to a reasonable extent and in- 

 culcate in them the principles of honesty, integrity and an 

 upright life, which will help them as they go out into the 

 world to assert their individuality and to be a help and a 

 blessing to the community where they shall make a home. 



We are very glad to welcome you all here to-day, and 

 we desire very much to make your stay at Dalton a very 

 pleasant one ; and we hope that when this meeting is over 

 and you shall separate and go to your homes, scattered all 

 over New England, you will carry with you nothing but 

 pleasant recollections of your meeting here. 



But wo rejoice most to-day in the good cheer and the 

 encouragement which you bring to the farmers not only 

 of our own locality but of all New England and the whole 

 country. For who is there to-day who will not say that 

 the farmer who has been faithful in his business, though 



