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nerve force — quality of skin, bone, hair and hoof, these are 

 what one learns to look for, though only a small part are on 

 the score card. These are to be the essentials 6f the horse 

 of to-morrow, and when found will give value. It has been 

 speed and speed alone. 



To-day the perfected horse is called for, perfected for the 

 road, perfected for long, continuous service. In the orchard 

 and field, the home and the whole range of home manufact- 

 ures, the scale, adapted to each class, becomes as valuable 

 as among the stock and its presence as helpful to the higher 

 education of to-morrow. 



The future of Massachusetts agriculture will depend upon 

 the future of Massachusetts agricultural societies, and their 

 life and perpetuity rest entirely upon their ability to assist 

 the inhabitants to a clear and satisfactory solution of the 

 great agricultural problem of the immediate future, one 

 fraught with significance to every native-born New Eng- 

 lander. 



I have endeavored to show how this solution, which rests 

 entirely upon the intelligence of the individual farmer and 

 his co-laborers, requires that greater discrimination be used 

 in determining the worth, the utility, the practicability, the 

 possibility of each and every class and department of agri- 

 cultural and mechanical products. It is not the financial 

 success of this or any other society which is at stake, but the 

 future of these farms ; not the growth of the organizations, 

 but the growth of that spirit of painstaking investigation 

 which, rightly applied, will lead the young men of to-day to 

 realize that here upon these farms, on these hillsides, up and 

 down these valleys, with growing markets all about you, 

 there are just as good opportunities for brain as well as 

 muscle development, just as certain results financially, just 

 as sure returns and a mci"e perfect manhood than town or 

 city can insure. 



The farmer in New England who carves a future for him- 

 self in the next ten years will do it out of his brain, his 

 hands being only willing servants. As a powerful aid and 

 stimulant to the possible work and results I place the per- 

 fected scale of points for each class and department and urge 

 its adoption by all agricultural societies and use by every 

 individual. 



