1 S ( Address. 



must inviting fields of culture.) But he is actually making up into 

 animal form, into bones, muscles and tissues the choicest elements of 

 the plant food of the soil, to be carried away, and which he must 

 return in grain purchased to facilitate their growth, or in lime, pot- 

 ash, phosphoric acid and nitrogenous materials, or the land will ere 

 long cease to yield its increase. 



If the farmer has a love for it, he will find in fruit culture a large 

 field in which to exercise his skill ; for in some form it is fast becom- 

 ing a staple article of consumption, and ordinarily the demand is far 

 beyond the supply. Besides the care of the plants and the harvest- 

 ing and marketing of the fruit, no great attention is needed. A crop 

 of fruit depletes the soil but little compared with our cultivated crops, 

 and needs only a friable soil, with occasional applications of mineral 

 manures in solvent form. 



But again, if the Massachusetts farmer would make the most of 

 his advantages, he must enter fully into the spirit of this wide-awake, 

 competitive, driving age. No man now, who shuts his eyes and 

 moves at a snail's pace to prevent a catastrophe, ought to expect, or 

 deserve to win. We are moving by the force of steam, and with tel- 

 egraphic speed, and with these modern appliances we do it safely. 

 As others do, so must the farmer, concentrate all his skill, intelli- 

 gence and energy, on one main pursuit, and in this way command 

 success. How successful, think you, would be the manufacturer, 

 who, in one and the same establishment, and with the same set of 

 hands, should attempt to manufacture all the different kinds of cotton 

 and woolen goods, or to produce the different kinds with the same 

 machinery? Who should add to his establishment the making of 

 cutlery, locomotives, machinery and every variety of Yankee no- 

 tions, instead of giving all his care, thought and study to the pro- 

 duction and perfection of one article and the machine of its manu- 

 facture ? Or who should this year fill his establishment with cotton 

 machinery, run it a twelve month, then take it out and put in that 

 for the manufacture of woolens ; another, engage in iron manufac- 

 ture, ami the next in plate glass. Would he succeed ? No ; he 

 would, as he deserved, miserably fail in, all; he would declare that 

 manufacturing did not pay, and sell out and go into other business, 

 or move west. So, too. in agriculture ; the farmer who attempts to 



