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are all creditable members of society, and in the decline of 

 life he is respected and happy. That man has been a suc- 

 cess. He is not a great man in the eyes of the world ; he is 

 not a scientific man ; he is not gifted with those bright and 

 shining accomplishments which command the admiration of 

 the world ; but he has filled his place, he has done his duty, 

 he has kept himself respected, and as he grows old he knows 

 that he will leave behind him those who will fill the place 

 creditably that he has filled. That is success in life, and 

 that success can be achieved by every man of sobriety, en- 

 ergy and industry. (Applause.) 



Adjourned to 7.30. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called to order by Mr. Goddard at 7.30, 

 Mr. Edmund Hersey of Hingham was introduced, who 

 delivered a very interesting lecture on Experiments in Potato 

 Culture, illustrated with Stereopticon. 



LECTURE ON EXPERIMENTS IN POTATO CULTURE. 

 [Illustrations at the end of the Lecture, after page 118.] 



BY EDMUND HERSEY OF HINGHAM. 



Members of the Board of Agriculture, — The subject of 

 potato culture has not again been brought before you be- 

 cause of the discovery of many new facts since last year, but 

 because I believe that I possess better means than ever before 

 of proving to you the truth of my assertions, and because of 

 the desire to show you the practicability of making true and 

 lasting records of agricultural experiments, in difierent stages 

 of progress, by that wonderful art which has been so per- 

 fected that the exact form and position of the trotting horse, 

 while in action, can be gathered up and preserved for future 

 examination. With what delight would we gaze upon what 

 we felt sure was a true picture of a field of corn as culti- 

 vated hj the Indians or the Pilgrims ; and how interested we 

 would be in looking at photographs of the cows milked by 

 our great-grandmothers, or of the hogs fed by their sons ; 



