408 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



health and mental vigor of the pupil through life are consid- 

 ered. If a boy in the country school has any snap, any am- 

 bition and manliness in him, he can go ahead and work out 

 his own destiny more freely and with greater energy. He 

 will, in the end, accomplish more, if he has the elements of 

 success in him. If he has not, no school will ever put them 

 into him. 



Let every farmer's boy, therefore, learn to appreciate the 

 value of time ; learn to feel that he is to be the architect of his 

 own fortune ; learn to cherish high aims and lofty purj)oses of 

 self-culture, and learn to realize the fact that the farm will fur- 

 nish ample scope for the growth and development of all the 

 elements of a manly, high-toned and noble character. 



CHARLES L. FLINT, 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Boston, January, 1874. 



