94 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



The same self-denial and toil will give better results in 

 Maine or Massachusetts than can be possible on the ranches 

 of the West. I would not have our children live as their 

 grandfathers did. I rejoice that our farm-houses are so rich 

 in comforts and adornments ; but I would that we had a 

 better appreciation of these, because here are some of the 

 conditions for success. It is not the amount of crops or 

 stock grown, but the profit which may be realized, that 

 should determine location. 



I said I believed in New England. Had we sung its 

 praises and made prominent its possibilities, had our homes 

 been full of love and faith, we should not to-day be con- 

 sidering the conditions for success. 



One of the conditions lies within us. It is that we look 

 for success, that we believe in success, that we in faith work 

 for success. Drifting does not develop manhood. What 

 should we say of a merchant who should commence business 

 with his mind full of doubts? 



Last winter a terrible disease prevailed in a foreign coun- 

 try. Our public prints were full of it in all its phases. It 

 reached our shores, and found a people anxious to embrace 

 it, and who would have been disappointed had it passed our 

 doors. It was "Hinglish, you know," and therefore popular. 

 The symptoms were so minutely described that one couldn't 

 sneeze but those who heard said "La Grippe." I do not 

 question the prevalence or deadly ravages of this disease ; 

 but what I do claim is this, that talking about it, preparing 

 for it, expecting it, placed people in condition physically 

 and mentally where they were unable to successfully cope 

 with it. I am not here to discuss psychological facts or 

 theories, and only give this as an illustration of my thought. 



During the past ten years the public print has been full of 

 dark pictures of agriculture ; even the agricultural press has 

 printed column upon column, questioning whether forming 

 paid. In the homes doubts have grown into beliefs ; ques- 

 tionings about the prospects and possibilities of the farm 

 have filled the ears of the children. From morning until 

 night one song has been sung, — that farm life is drudgery, 

 that it .doesn't pay, and there's no sunshine in it. To seal 

 the lesson, State bureaus of information have advertised, far 



