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manures carried into that place would astonish you as it did 

 me, — ton after ton of superphosphate and Peruvian guano, 

 and all the ashes that can be purchased within twenty-five or 

 thirty miles of the town. 



This is the secret of the wliole business — the selection of the 

 proper crop for each particular locality ; hay, where it is a hay 

 farm, and onions where it is an onion farm ; rapidly perishable 

 commodities for the local markets. Wherever you are situated 

 adapt your business to the locality in which you live. If you 

 follow these rules there is no piece of land in Massachusetts to 

 which a certain form of agriculture cannot be applied which 

 will be profitable. 



It is a very easy thing to say that farming is not profitable. 

 Mr. Hubbard has told you the whole story. Why is it the great 

 profitable business ? It is the foundation of everything else. 

 Mills stop, ships sink, banks suspend ; but it is the land which 

 really keeps the whole machine in motion, and makes the com- 

 munity really and substantially rich. Three thousand millions 

 of dollars' worth of agricultural products in this country within 

 the last year ! Let the manufacturers tell such a story as that 

 if they can. Of all the articles exported into foreign markets 

 from this country, to give us a substantial financial basis abroad 

 for the nine months ending the 31st of March, 1870, two 

 hundred and fifty-fiv^e millions out of three hundred and 

 eighty-seven millions were agricultural products. One hun- 

 dred and seventy million dollars' worth of cotton ; sixteen 

 and a half million dollars' worth of tobacco ; eight or ten mil- 

 lion dollars' worth of wheat ; five million dollars' worth of bacon 

 and hams ; seven million dollars' worth of cheese ; and so it 

 goes all the way through the two hundred and fifty-five millions. 

 That is the relation that agriculture holds to the financial world, 

 and to the financial success of our country. T tell you there is 

 no crop that a man can possibly raise for which he cannot find 

 a market, if he will only by some ingenuity or other find a 

 channel from his farm to his market. 



Mr. Moore has told you, and told you well, how he has been 

 able to manage the railroad in Concord. You can do the same 

 thing all over this State. I venture to say that there is no rail- 

 road company in the Commonwealth bold enough to defy the 

 farming community that lives along its line, when that com- 

 munity demands a fair, just and reasonable mode of sending 



