74 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



ard of culture. My idea of a great, good and happy man, is 

 that of a thoroughly educated and accomplished farmer. 



The hope of progress in agriculture must rest upon the devel- 

 opment of its science. Here is a wide and noble field of inves- 

 tigation for the young, and how few have devoted themselves to 

 it. Take, for instance, the blights and diseases of vegetation, 

 and if you have a taste for researches of this kind, the farmer 

 has much for you to do ; for if you could discover a remedy 

 against the weavil or the fly which infests the wheat crop, you 

 could save millions of bushels of wheat every year, and thus be 

 a benefactor of mankind ; or could you discover a remedy for 

 the disease of the potato, your name would be immortalized. 

 Come, then, to the rescue, and be assured that he who makes 

 two blades of grass grow where one grew before, without 

 impoverishing the soil, will have lived to some purpose. 



