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fed and milked regularly, so as to keep her in an even 

 frame of mind. 



Mr. William Little of Newbury believed in following 

 mother nature with the calf, instead of studying how to 

 cheat the calf. If he had not milk enough for it until it 

 was eight or nine weeks old he would buy more and feed 

 it. 



Remarks were made by Mr. Holt of Andover, Mr. Ware 

 and Mr. Bailey of Newbury, after which the meeting ad- 

 journed for dinner. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The afternoon meeting was called to order at half-past 

 one, when Mr. Sessions delivered an interesting address 

 upon the subject " What Benefit do the Farmers Derive 

 from the State Board of Agriculture." 



He spoke first of agriculture as the earliest occupation 

 of mankind, and the calling upon which other industries 

 depend. Wise rulers are now beginning to realize that no 

 government can prosper without a thrifty agriculture. He 

 quoted Washington's address in 1796, in which he said it 

 would not be doubted with reference to the individual and 

 national welfare, that agriculture was of primary impor- 

 tance. In speaking of the work performed by the state 

 board, reference was made to the eflectual stamping out of 

 the pleuro-pneumonia in 1859 and 1860, when the state 

 appropriated -f 100,000, and the disease was eradicated. If 

 the state board had done nothing more that would have jus- 

 tified its establishment. Allusion was also made to the state 

 board for its efforts in securing- a law compelling the sale of 

 commercial fertilizers under a guaranteed analysis, and for 

 the protection of the farmer against impostors. Before the 

 passage of that law the selling of fertilizers was a cut- 

 throat business. The state board was instrumental in es- 

 tablishing the Agricultural College in 1862, and now the 

 state board are the trustees of the college, with a marked 

 improvement of what it was formerly. The special mis- 



