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there could not be much profit in tliat. Farmers may gain 

 much in organizing and pushing things for their interest. 



Mr. Hazeltine, of Haverhill, followed with remarks in 

 sympathy with the former speakers, and said we in New 

 England must be content to farm in a small way as com- 

 pared with the large farmers of the West. We can make a 

 living but cannot make large profits. He criticised sundry 

 legislative acts as against the farmers' interest, and criti- 

 cised the farmers for not taking proper interest in such 

 things. 



0. S. Butler, of Georgetown, complimented the essayist 

 for the able manner in which he had treated his subject, and 

 finally told of many legislative laws that were burdensome 

 to the farmers, and said that if the farmers would work as 

 hard to protect their interests, as people in other callings, 

 and organize for the purpose, they could have some say in 

 the making of laws for their benefit and make money by it. 

 Hon. Warren Brown, of Hampton Falls, was called upon 

 and said that it was plain to everybody that the condition 

 of the farmer had improved very much in the last fifty 

 years. A flower garden near the house, an added bay win- 

 dow, and a supply of daily and other newspapers on almost 

 every farm gave evidence of it. He said he thought if some 

 farmers would mind their business more and grumble less 

 at what people in other vocations were doing, they would 

 get along better. 



Mr. C. J. Peabody, of Topsfield, agreed with the former 

 speaker in the last of his remarks, by illustrating cases 

 that had come under his personal observation, ai?d cited 

 cases of bookkeepers, clerks and others, where they were 

 shut up in ill ventilated rooms all day and lost their 

 health, and worked hard, and at the end of the year were 

 no better off than the farmer, ihey only had earned their 

 living, and the farmer had done that and had had pure 

 air to breathe and was well, hearty and robust. 



vVt the opening of the afternoon session. President 

 Ware said that this was the seventh and last of the 



