126 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



twenty thousand dollars, with a two-hundred-acre farm and 

 seventy or eighty cows ; and every little while he sends me 

 a tub of butter and says, " To my good friend, who showed 

 me how." Now, there are hundreds of such instances that 

 have come under my own Observation. My friends, that 

 system can be just as profitably employed in New England 

 as it can in Wisconsin. We do not differ so much as the 

 stars in glory. Our interests are about alike, and all blessed 

 influences will act alike upon the one and the other. 



Mr. W. W. Rawson. I have been referred to in some 

 of the remarks which have been made as being one of the 

 market gardeners. Of course, being interested in that 

 business, I know what concentration means, not only in 

 market gardening, but in all kinds of forming. The reason 

 why a good many farms are deserted, is because they are 

 not worth cultivating. There is no such thing to-day as 

 overproduction in Massachusetts. I thought a few years 

 ago, when I first launched out in the market gardening 

 business, that there might be such a thing; but I doubled 

 my business, and found I did all the better. There was a 

 time when we thought we could not raise lettuce for less 

 than a dollar per dozen ; now I should be very glad to get 

 fifty cents. There was a time when we thought we could 

 not grow it in hot-houses, but were obliged to grow it under 

 glass outside. That has all been done away with. It took 

 me seven years to get there. You have been given to 

 understand how this thing has been accomplished. It has 

 been accomplished by patience, by constant work, and by 

 study. Study your business, understand the land that you 

 cultivate, get all the information you can in relation to the 

 business that you are carrying on, and make a specialty of 

 some few articles, because any one of the articles that } ;r ou 

 might produce at the present time will give you a living. 

 I am carrying on at this present time three distinct busi- 

 nesses, and any one of them will give me a good living at 

 any time. 



The young men of to-day, I think, have a better chance 

 than the young men of ten or twenty } T ears ago, even in 

 farming. They have opportunities to-day for acquiring 

 knowledge which some of us did not have ten or twenty 



