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inatecl by cb arches cind tbe advantages accruing from our 

 New England school-system ; if he will withdraw himself 

 from all intercourse with his fcllow-mau, and draw himself 

 like a tortoise into his own shell ; if he can forego all the priv- 

 ileges, all tbe conveniences, all the luxuries and all the bless- 

 ings garnered up in a New England agricultural home, look- 

 ing solely on the almighty dollar as the chief end of man, 

 and the cbief aim of his existence, he can have the pleasure, 

 if pleasure it be, to grasp and hug a pile. But what shall it 

 profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose all 

 the comforts, all the pleasures, all the blessings, in a word, 

 everything that is worth living for? 



•' 'Tis not the whole of life to live." 



One of our distinguished senators from Massachusetts, in 

 his address at the late Worcester County Agricultural Fair, 

 urges that the young farmers of New England, instead of 

 leaving the soil worked by their fathers, invest their profits 

 in adding to their* acres, and even run into debt with a fair 

 prospect of liquidating the same from their increased profits. 



Nothing anchors a man so surely and so safely as a deed 

 of a spot of land, on w^hich he has erected his domicile, 

 where he has made a home for his loved ones, in which he 

 has garnered all his affections, and around which cluster all 

 his hopes. 



These distinguished sons of New England, born on her 

 soil, reared on her farms, find time to give their attention to 

 the science and the practice of agriculture. The one can 

 leave his pulpit, and, going to his farm for vacation, can show 

 that he is just as honorably employed while breeding and 

 training horses and tilling the soil, doing with his might 

 whatever his hand findeth to do in his Master's business, 

 whether in the pulpit, in the stable, or on the turf. The 

 other, amid his onerous duties, when the finances of the na- 

 tion for four years were managed or ordered by his wise 

 foresight, and at a time also in our financial history that de- 

 manded the highest financial ability, could find time to give 

 his attention to his private farm in Groton, and occasionally 

 visit his broad acres, thereby relaxing his overtaxed energies, 

 the better to execute the highest trust ever imposed on a man 



