246 • BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Oct. 11, To hauling 3 loads, J day, $1 50 



11, " 5 " pumpkins 1 50 



11, By 5 loads, $10 00 



2G, ■ 3 loads fodder, 9 00 



2G, To husking 105 bushels cars, at 4c., .... 4 20 



2G, By 105 bushels corn, at $1, 105 00 



$3G 43 

 26, To interest on land, G 00 



$42 43 

 Profit ofcorn crop No. 2, 18G4, .... 8157 



$124 00 $124 00 



C. 0. Perkins, for Commitlee. 



This Report was accepted. 



Mr. Huntington, of Hadley, then offered the following- 

 Report on 



to 



THE RAISING AND TRESERVATION OF SEEDS. 



In the prosecution of the work of the farmer, the gardener, 

 the fruit raiser, or the florist, all hope of success rests mainly on 

 two agencies, viz. : the seed and its cultivation. They are twin 

 sisters, from whose prolific breasts are fed all those forms of "V'.ege- 

 table life that turn the wilderness into fruitful fields, and make 

 the desert blossom like the rose. 



In the economy of nature, they are no more to be separated 

 than arc faith and works in the Christian scheme. Slight either 

 agency, and the instant tendency is to depreciation. 



It seems to be a fundamental law, underlying all forms of life. 



animal as well as vegetable, that in order to insure the finest 

 issues, the two should go hand in hand. There is an old saying, 

 that blood tells, whether in man or beast. But if we were to 

 illustrate the capacity of the human mind for intellectual attain- 

 ment, we should not only make our selection from an intellectual 

 stock, but take care to give the subject of our experiment the 

 most careful training. To neglect this would be as unwise 

 as to make our selection from among the Hottentots or South 

 Sea Islanders, with the expectation that any amount of after 

 culture would reveal the full, or even the average intellectual 

 capacity of man. 



The careful breeder of any of the varieties of fancy stock, in 

 our country, will not commit the folly of lavishing time and 

 money to secure the best strains of blood, and then expect that 



