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for earnest effort can it merit a claim for public recognition. 

 More work and better work, deeper resolves for the future 

 as well as rejoicings for the past, the building of a positive, 

 earnest, persistent, aggressive agricultural sentiment, is to 

 be the field of operations for the patrons of husbandr}^ ; and 

 out of these will come a volume of influence which will 

 insure that essential support, on every hand, necessary for 

 the best advance of New England agriculture. 



