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that all-absorbing demand for iuventions which will assure 

 the toilers on hill and valley all the means, aoencies and 

 appliances which, rigiitl}' understood, will enhance rural life 

 by increasing the measure of its scope. 



Extensive, intensive agriculture must be the motto every- 

 where for those who have faith in the strenuous life of the 

 present generation. Those who have toiled and struggled 

 in an earlier period, who have been fettered by the smaller 

 conception of hand labor, must either conform to the con- 

 ditions which face the youth of to-day, or quietly sit in the 

 shadow of the chimney corner and watch the procession in 

 its rapid march. The agriculture of to-morrow cannot be 

 hampered or hindered in its forward movement by those tied 

 to old-time practices, else the State will fail in its develop- 

 ment and the industry sutler in its advancement. 



" Theirs not ^o make reply, 

 Theirs not to reason why, 

 Theirs but to do and die." 



Do you accept the truth of Avhat T am saying? Are you 

 looking at the problems from this stand-point? 



Viewing the question as I do, believing in the possibilities 

 of New England agriculture, having faith that we are on the 

 eve of a great forward movement, which is not only revolu- 

 tionizing our methods, but that through the incoming popu- 

 lation from our cities, of the great west and south, to om* 

 farms we are to see in the next decade a marked change in 

 the situation, it is to me imperati\e that we view this ques- 

 tion with unbiassed minds, free from all the habits of past 

 years, with only the thought of the largest and freest future 

 for the industr}'. 



No lonirer can the apiculture of New Eni^fland be ham- 

 pered by those who would hold it within the narrow confines 

 of old-time practices, — ]iractices correct under former con- 

 ditions, correct in principle to-day, but needing to be trans- 

 formed and conformed to the life and conditions of the 

 twentieth century. 



Into the public life of the State, into the controlling influ- 

 ences on Beacon Hill, into all the moving currents which 



