ticular I have driven through this summer of which the 

 Indian name signified " God forgotten ;" I say that in 

 locahties hke these, where nothing hut the indomitable 

 pluck of our ancestors secured a settlement, a deserted 

 farm house accords well enough with the landscape, and 

 one is not disposed to call to account the deserters. But a 

 deserted farm house here in Essex County is an unnatural 

 sight, and is brought about by a state of things for which 

 you, brother farmers, many of you, are directly responsible. 



You do not give the boys encouragement enough to stay 

 at home and carry on the farm. The drudgery of farming 

 is not attractive, nor is the drudgery of any other business, 

 but in farming the boy sees nothing to balance the drudgery 

 if he follows the monotonous routine of the average Essex 

 County farm. He finds it stocked with an uninteresting 

 herd of milch cows, which you have picked up from 

 traders and propose to turn to butchers when dry. After a 

 summer of toil to provide subsistence for these cows, he 

 has nothing, so far as the farm is concerned, to look for- 

 ward to but the care of them during the winter. 



Although there is profit even in this sort of farming 

 shrewdly conducted, and profit is the ultimate inducement 

 in every business, yet the smallness of our farms renders it 

 impracticable in most instances to pursue this course on a 

 sufficiently large scale to make the profit alluring. How 

 can you expect your boy to take much interest in it ? He 

 sees little done for the improvement of tlie farm, nothing 

 done for the improvement of the breed of animals on it, 

 no interesting process to conduct or to watch. Passing his 

 whole minority thus, can you wonder that he avails himself 



