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audience will o^o home and see if he has not ""ot the material 

 on liis farm for the foundation, and all it lacks is the skill to 

 unite the proper blood. That is all Charles Colling did, and 

 all that Robert Bake well did. 



Mr. Appleton. It seems to me that your words need to 

 be enforced upon the farmers. 



QuESTiox. How are we to enforce them? 



Mr. Appleton. Simply liy Ijringing before them, "line 

 upon line and precept upon precept," such instruction as we 

 have had here, in order to bring about the desired result. I 

 think this Board has adopted a method which has that object 

 in view. The Board is going to institute lectures on this 

 same subject in different towns throughout the State. If we 

 could have 3'our lecture repeated, it would be a great help. 

 I refer to this to show that the Board is progressing and 

 doing more than it has in the past l)y having these lectures 

 during the winter. I think it is an advance and will be a 

 great help. It was to make that point that I rose and asked 

 the question. 



Mr. McIntosh. I wish to say one word to help out Mr. 

 Gold. I am one of those old fogies who still clino- to oxen. 

 I have learned that in Connecticut they still produce a good 

 many working oxen, and there are some men who make it 

 their business to buy oxen wherever they can find anybody 

 who has a good yoke to sell. That is the reason they breed 

 steers there. In Massachusetts oxen have gone out of 

 fashion except among a few old fogies. 



Secretary Sessions. Mr. Brooks, the professor of agri- 

 culture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, I think 

 could tell a little story about his experience with some grade 

 cows which he purchased, that may be of interest as showing 

 the ability of Ncav England cattle to furnish something to 

 build on. 



Professor Brooks. I will say that, at the time when I 

 took charije of the herd of cattle on the colleo;e form at 

 Amherst, the barn was not nearly full. I found the farm 

 producing an enormous quantity of fodder, corn, etc., but 

 no stock to consume it. The policy had been pursued for a 

 few years of selling a good deal of hay, and man}' of the 

 fields on the farm needed an additional amount of fertilizers. 



