100 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



are of that number, but that bad bread and new bread fur- 

 nish a foundation for much of our domestic invalidism cannot 

 be denied. 



Time will not permit me to tax your patience further. I 

 should like to liave spoken to you of the cattle of Europe ; to 

 have described my visit to the London cattle market, and shown 

 you the crowded rows of long, spreading-horned cattle from 

 Portugal and Spain, the cattle from France, Holland and Bel- 

 gium, and even from Austria, the tlu-ifty Shorthorn and shaggy, 

 long-horned Highlanders. I should like to have pointed out 

 to you the floral and horticultural beauty of the old countries, 

 and the neatness of the flower gardens and ornamental grounds 

 around every country railway station ; to have visited with you 

 Alderman Mechi and his farm at Tiptree Hall, and the Model 

 Agricultural School at Dublin, where I found one farm of five 

 acres, another of twenty-five, and a third of two or three hun- 

 dred, all carried on separately, as models suited to the capacity 

 of farmers of different means. 



