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quarters of a million dollars yearly to Massachusetts, capable 

 of being greatly increased ; and yet men stand asking to be 

 shown the way to success in agriculture. The market 

 gardeners about Boston or Worcester, who have studied this 

 problem of intensive culture so closely, and are reaping a 

 profit from every rod of land, have settled the question. 

 Find success? Why, that's what they are after, and they 

 know no such word as fail. In 1885, in Massachusetts, the 

 growers of onions, cabbages, celery, squashes, strawberries, 

 tomatoes and tobacco, realized two and a quarter millions of 

 dollars for their crops, and with each there has for the past 

 five years been an increasing demand and a fair profit, 

 because, while prices have not advanced, growers have by 

 improved methods, special fertilizers and more complete 

 knowledge, reduced the cost of growing, and so found success. 



On the hill-side farms of Maine the orchards yearly bear 

 rich harvests for those who intelligently plant, cultivate, 

 prune and foster ; and those whose ears are open to the calls 

 of the market are multiplying their trees as fast as consistent 

 with good culture. To my mind there is no future for the 

 farmer who does a little of most everything, and not much 

 of anything. The whole drift of the times is away from 

 these practices, and the call ringing all along the line, and 

 coming with tremendous power to those who watch the drift 

 of thought, is for concentration upon those lines for which 

 the individual is best adapted. 



In the olden time the voice of God came unto Moses, 

 saying, " Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go 

 forward" So to-day the same cry rings out from every 

 quarter. The silent forces of nature catch the refrain, and 

 bud, leaf and fruit tell of the rush toward perfection. Go 

 forward is the command which, as we toil in field or barn, 

 we should hear, and, hearing, obey. The perfect standard 

 is yet before us in fruit, seed, crop, animal, and also in man. 

 The certainty that the highest results have not yet been 

 obtained should lead to fresh endeavor and renewed zeal. 



When we stop and consider what marvelous strides have 

 been made in every direction during the past quarter of a 

 century, hope should be strengthened for the future. Viewed 

 by the standards of that period, the dairy cow of to-day is a 



