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life, and that the bull calves (which belonged to him) he 

 had sold for more money than he ever got for all the calves 

 raised in one year before. 



" Where there is a will there is a way," and those 

 gentlemen whose intelligence and liberality have prompted 

 them to invest in large and valuable herds, furnish the way 

 in this instance. I mention Jerseys because I happen to 

 be more familiar with that family in this locality ; the 

 same thing can be done with any other family of recog- 

 nized superiority and well established breed. 



Essex County is well adapted for stock raising, as some 

 of its most enterprising and successful farmers have proved. 

 Land, except in the immediate vicinity of large towns, is 

 as cheap as the same kind of land almost anywhere in New 

 England. I own a farm in Maine and another in Vermont, 

 5 and 15 miles I'espectively from a railroad. I cannot buy 

 pasture land in the vicinity of either of them, as cheap as 

 I have bought in this county. Yet we have to go outside 

 of this county to find many of those men who, by persis- 

 tent devotion to the breeding of some one class of good 

 stock, have made brilliant successes. There are many of 

 them in other parts of New England, where the advantages 

 are in no respect greater than Essex County gives, whose 

 progress I have watched with great interest. The history 

 of tlieir labors and achievements would be instructive, but 

 I will only cite the results in a few instances. One man 

 having finished his labors, leaving an enduring monument, 

 the finest breed of animals of their kind in the world, I 

 must mention by name : 



Forty years ago, Mr. Edwin Hammond of Middlebury, 



