that can be pursued with handsome profits, but whatever 

 kind is undertaken, let it be persevered in, for no man, 

 after adapting his land, buildings, stock and tools, to any 

 one kind, can change to another without great loss of 

 time and money. 



T know an instance of an industrious and good farmer, 

 who hired a small farm, and made every exertion to pre- 

 pare - it for the onion crop. He grew onions two years 

 and was obliged to sell them from a dollar and a quarter 

 to two dollars per barrel, while early potatoes brought 

 high prices and paid large profits. The next two years 

 he planted early potatoes, excluding onions, but unfor- 

 tunately for him, potatoes rotted badly both years, and 

 onions w^ere sold from three to eight dollars per barrel. 

 If he had continued his onion crop, his returns would 

 have been large. 



In another case, a neighbor cul'^^'vated onions, and for 

 three years his crojDS w^ere partial ±vdlures, causing him 

 to fall in debt five hundred dollars each year, but he 

 persisted in their cultivation, and the fourth year he was 

 enabled to pay off his debt of the previous three years, 

 and clear two thousand dollars besides, whereas, if he 

 had changed his system of farming, he might never have 

 paid his debt, and farming, in his case, would have been 

 been a failure, instead of the great success it has since 

 proved to be. 



Havino- thus, Mr. President and o-entlemen of the So- 

 ciety, given you some of the results of my experience 

 and observation as a practical farmer, born and bred in 

 our good old county of Essex, and knowing, too, the 

 resources of her soil, if but wisely and thoroughly culti- 

 vated, let me, in conclusion, urge you to renewed efforts 

 in developing those resources by premiums, by shows? 



