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provement ;" and he recommended " that a farmer should 

 use his eyes as well as his hands." 



Hon. Nathan W. HAZEN.was selected as the orator, at 

 Danvers, Sept 28, 1836. He spoke of the importance 

 of agriculture, and stated in striking phrase that : " When 

 agriculture loses the services of youth, and they desert 

 its fields for other employments, it is as though spring 

 should be struck from the seasons of the year, or should 

 forget to bloom." He recommended : ^' the adoption of 

 s^^stem in husbandry" as apt to induce that minute at- 

 tention and close observation on which its success so 

 much depends. 



Rev. Nathaniel Gage addressed the Society at Tops- 

 field, Sept. 27, 1837. He laid down some valuable rules 

 of husbaudrj^, and said : " A prominent difficulty, in ad- 

 vancing a general improvement in the husbandry of the 

 great body of farmers, arises fi*om an attachment to ex- 

 isting usages and a dread of innovations." 



Rev. Leonard Withington spoke at the exhibition at 

 Topsfield, Sept. 27, 1828. He advanced the idea that: 

 " We must bring our manners and our political theory in- 

 to more harmony. Our creed must sanction our practice, 

 and our practice must be in conformity with the spirit of 

 our creed. We nmst not attempt to put new wine into 

 old bottles ; else the bottles break and the wine runneth 

 out and the bottles perish ; or, in plain langmage, the re- 

 publican spirit must be put into republican forms ; and 

 we must be content to take the system, the whole system, 

 with all its blessings and attendant evils." Sound agri- 

 cultural doctrine. 



Rev. Allen Putnam was the speaker at Georgetown, 

 Sept. 26, 1839. Said he : " I have a few words for the 

 fanners' wives. However skiUful, industrious, and pru- 

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