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a right direction to the practical labor of the farm. Whatever 

 success we meet with is not the result of chance, it is not an 

 accidental reward. It is that triumph which can only attend 

 man's footsteps as the fruits of patient, intelligent and indus- 

 trious toil. 



Let us thank God, then, for our tenure of land, for our hard 

 and rugged soil, for the capabilities of our agriculture, and for 

 that necessity which rests upon us as the cultivators of New 

 England, to exercise those virtues whch can alone preserve the 

 great civil inheritance which has fallen to us as the sons of the 

 farmers who landed at Plymouth and fought at Bunker Hill. 



