MR. newell's address. 17 



you see, the quantity of milk is not the only subject to be attended 

 to in a dairy stock. 



I suppose I have already wearied your patience, and -without ad- 

 ding any thing more I would recommend to all farmers to peruse the 

 publications on farming and stock, within their reach. They will 

 afford a fund of instruction and amusement for the leisure hours of 

 the winter evenings, soon coming on, and I venture to say they will 

 resume the labors of the coming spring, with more of system and 

 better success, than on former years. 



Perhaps it was one of the wisest sayings of any uninspired man, 

 that "If the threatening that man should eat his bread by the sweat 

 of his brow was designed as a curse, it was one tempered with the 

 greatest mercy." No man or woman is too rich or too honorable to 

 work. Not that every man must dig potatoes or every woman wash 

 them ; but to feel that you have something to do that must be done, 

 is but the spice of life. Show an individual that has nothing to do, 

 and you find one that will do almost anything to kill time. The daily 

 laborer, if free, asks no pity from him. The curse upon the ground, 

 that it should bring forth the thorn and the thistle, becomes an obso- 

 lete idea, where the blessings of industry have their full scope. 



Go to yonder garden, and then say if the vegetables, the fruits 

 and the flowers there are not equal to the spontaneous productions of 

 the garden of Eden. The very effort to rear them has a powerful 

 influence on the moral sense. Believe you that the tender hands 

 that nurtured the flowers that have surrounded us to-day, would give 

 forbidden fruit to the objects of their best affections? If we pro- 

 ceeded from a strange vine, I have no evidence that we are the de- 

 generate plants. 



I believe, in this country, mankind are growing more industrious 

 and more virtuous, save where the blighting influence of an unpaid 

 labor is destroying the energies of those who demand it, and do no- 

 thing themselves. It is to be hoped that the time will speedily come, 

 when all will feel that the hands of the laborer, to be eflScient, must 

 be free. 



