336 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



It is desirable that every effort should be made to bring the 

 highest intelligence to bear upon the development of our mate- 

 rial resources. We have markets at our very doors for every- 

 thing we can raise upon the farm, in the garden or the orchard. 

 We have the soil and the facilities of transportation required to 

 make farming productive. We should take every step that may 

 be necessary to make the most of whatever advantages we 

 possess, and this may be done by promoting the highest degree 

 of intelligence among the young, who are to be the future pos- 

 sessors and tillers of the soil. In this way, and this alone, can 

 we hope to rival the fertile fields of the West or the more 

 genial regions of the South. And when the comparative advan- 

 tages of different sections are weighed, may we not hope by the 

 fostering care of the State, to present greater inducements to the 

 sons of Massachusetts to remain upon the farms of their fathers, 

 than any other location can offer ? 



CHARLES L. FLINT, 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 

 Boston, January 31, 1866. 



