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developed into proportions large enough to make it succeed 

 with us. It succeeds well enough in England and on tlie Con- 

 tinent of Europe, because there are no such producers there as 

 Mr. Moore has alluded to in Concord, — gentlemen owning large 

 tracts of land, producing large quantities of fruit or vegetables, 

 and putting their products together and sending them to market. 

 The persons coming into the market towns of Europe are gen- 

 erally small producers. I have seen in Switzerland, for instance, 

 a little bull hitched to a wagon, and a girl fourteen or fifteen 

 years old driving him, with about as much in the wagon as half 

 a dozen wheelbarrows would hold, the produce, perhaps, of her 

 father's farm for the day. It is a little business. It is the 

 smallest conceivable mode of transacting business. That is not 

 the way things are done here. 



Mr. Moore has told you what has been done in Concord ; it is 

 a good plan, and one that can be adopted anywhere. The lesson 

 to be drawn from what he said is to raise in your own locality 

 what you can send profitably to market. Mr. Howe cannot 

 raise cabbages in Bolton, and get them to market at a profit ; I 

 can, living within half a mile of the market of Salem. It is 

 utterly useless for a man who has a farm a hundred and fifty 

 miles from Boston, to make an attempt to raise strawl^errics for 

 the Boston market, but he can raise an endless variety of com- 

 modities that he can put into barrels and bales and sell there. 

 We can raise onions and wheat and barley in proper places, and 

 send them to the great markets. There is one section of this 

 State, — the county of Essex, — in which farmers are obedient to 

 that law which we have laid down. They produce on their 

 farms what is adapted to the market in which their farms are 

 located. Tliere is not a cabbage, nor an onion, nor a potato, 

 nor a bushel of pease, nor an ear of sweet corn, nor a bushel of 

 turnips, nor a ton of hay, nor a quart of milk, raised in that 

 county, that has not found a channel through which it flows 

 readily and profitably to market. Let me illustrate. The mar- 

 ket of Lawrence sprang up about the year 1845 or 1846. I 

 knew the region round about it well. It had been occupied by 

 what we call general farmers. They had been industrious and 

 prosperous. They raised a little wool, a little pork, and corn 

 and potatoes, some apples and cider, and they kept along in that 

 way. But the instant the market of Lawrence opened, tlie sons 



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