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gained in the search for success in agriculture, through the 

 door of the earnest, working grange, backed as it is by the 

 boards of agriculture, than by any other organization in 

 existence. The great problem is still before us, calling for 

 united study and investigation, and only by uniting our 

 efforts can the question be solved. 



The day for increased prices has gone. If the great beef 

 industry has touched bottom, as many believe it has, the 

 profits of the future are to be found not in a higher range 

 of prices so much as in a more active demand. This 

 admitted, the first great question to be solved is that of 

 cost of production. Here the individual will fail. There 

 must be a coming together, a union of effort in study and 

 investigation. He must be in constant touch with those 

 engaged in the same line of work, and this calls for organ- 

 ization. Had this been the practice of the past, the cry 

 to-day would not be, show us the way to success. 



There must be more faith in ourselves, our calling and 

 our farms. I do not stand here as a farmer fresh from the 

 fields, but as one who, out of years of experience in cer- 

 tain lines of work, years of study and observation, and an 

 acquaintance with farmers who, having faith, have secured 

 results, has satisfied himself that farming in New England 

 is being and can be made profitable, and to-day, in spite of 

 difficulties, this faith is unshaken. Here are the farms 

 ready to respond to the call of the intelligent laborer. 

 Here at our doors are the best markets of the world. Here 

 are blessings, born of necessity, nurtured in poverty, and 

 firmly planted in our New England institutions. Here are* 

 social privileges unequaled anywhere. Here is a standard 

 of education which calls forth admiration from every quar- 

 ter of the earth. If more of earnest toil is required, 

 greater blessings wait the struggle. If climate and soil, on 

 this rock-bound coast, demand sturdier blows, they insure 

 a more rugged type of manhood ; and the men and women 

 grown on our hills and under the shadow of our great moun- 

 tains go out to all quarters of the globe, and there lead the 

 thought of the inhabitants wherever they may pitch 

 their tents. The West or South cannot offer like attrac- 

 tions, they cannot insure the full measure of compensation. 



