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dent your husbands may be, their success m money mak- 

 ing depends as much upon you as upon them." Does 

 any farmer doubt this ? 



Hon. AsAHEL Huntington, the orator for 1840, at what 

 place the Transactions do not inform us, dechtf ed that : 

 " to secure an increased and increasing production. Ma- 

 nure is the great and principal instrumentality. This is 

 the beginning, the middle, and the end of thriving hus- 

 bandry." 



Alonzo Gray, A. M., the speaker at Georgetown, Sept. 

 29, 1841, proclaimed : '' that in order to secure constant 

 progress and permanent improvement in agriculture, its 

 principles must be made a regular branch of study in an 

 extended course of an English education. 



Hon. Allen W. Dodge, at Andover, Sept. 28, 1842, 

 encouraged the fruit-growers of this county with the dec- 

 laration that : " The apples Of Essex may yet be as wide- 

 ly celebrated as the oranges of Havana." He also stat- 

 ed, with much good judgment, that : " extensive cultiva- 

 tion of root crops is the basis of good husbandry in Great 

 Britain, and I see no good reason why it should not be 

 with us." He urged " the personal visitation of farms 

 that are distinguished for good management in general, 

 or for excellence in any specific department." 



Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, speaking eloquently at 

 Andover, Sept. 27, 1843, said in defence of agricultural 

 societies — " no one now opposes or attempts to cast ridi- 

 cule on these associations, which are spreading over our 

 broad land, and whose good effects are seen in improved 

 cultivation, not only in our own blessed New England, 

 but in the States of the for West — and their light has 

 broken in upon those less favored regions, where labor is 



