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years ago. They have the land which is at their disposal, 

 they have the markets, which you all know are the best in 

 the world. There is no such market in this country or in 

 any other country as the Boston market, and there are no such 

 vegetables or produce of any kind shown in the market any- 

 where, or shown in such good shape, as in the Boston 

 market. All of you know that, and I would advise you to 

 take the advice of one of the speakers here, and go to the 

 Boston market once in a while yourselves. I go there every 

 day. 



I do not wish to take up the time, Mr Chairman. I think 

 that the trouble in most cases with farming at the present 

 time is with the man, not with the farm. All it requires is 

 intelligence, brains and capital. 



Mr. Peterson. I would like to inquire, of those who 

 have the figures, if within the last seventy-five years farming 

 lands in New England were ever cheaper ip price than they 

 are to-day. 



Dr. Twitchell. I cannot answer the gentleman's question, 

 save so far as it relates to my own State, except that the 

 remark has been made, by some of those who are gathering 

 statistics in other States, that farm property has never been 

 so cheap as to-day. It is so in the State of Maine, outside of 

 Aroostook County. There farm property was never so 

 high as it is at the present time ; and in certain sections of 

 the State, where special work is being done and special 

 results obtained, the same condition of things exists. But 

 general farm property is low in Maine, low in New Hamp- 

 shire ; and I judge, from the papers I receive from your own 

 State, that it is low in Massachusetts. 



Recess until two o'clock. 



Afternoon Session. 



The meeting re-assembled soon after two o'clock, Mr. 

 Hartshorn in the chair. 



Secretary Sessions. I have a question here that need not 

 take any great length of time in discussion: "Must we 

 cement our barn cellars in order to save the liquid manure 



