18 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pulx Doc. 



sidewalk in a crowded city, and note the uneconomical quality of 

 most of the horses that pass, for the work which they are perform- 

 ing ; or go to a milk farm, where many cows are kept, and learn 

 the small average of quarts per day from each cow for the year, and 

 also listen to the regrets of the owner that he cannot find cows at 

 any market where he is a purchaser, of a better average standard, — 

 he will be impressed with the fact that the quality is much inferior 

 to the possibility, and our needs. 



Good pigs of the best quality to fatten are too often difficult to 

 find. 



What can be done to promote a higher quality in our useful 

 animals seems to me a serious question to be considered. Would 

 the example set at the great fair in Chicago, of having selected 

 herds of the various breeds of neat cattle and other animals ex- 

 hibited in different parts of the State, at times when our farmers 

 could most readily visit them, be helpful as object lessons for New 

 England ? Would the State have to be financially behind such an 

 effort, in order to insure success? 



But I have written, perhaps too much, and, with regrets that I 

 probably cannot be with you during the week. 



Believe me, in mutual interest for agricultural advancement, 

 Yours very truly, 



Francis H. Appleton, 



of the Board of Agriculture. 



The Chairman. As a farmer of Massachusetts, and of 

 Essex County in particular, I would say a word in regard 

 to the interest which we have all taken in the work being 

 done by the agricultural colleges of this vicinity. We all 

 have an honest pride in the work of our own Massachusetts 

 college. AVe follow out the doings of that college by the 

 bulletins and by the reports as they are issued, and learn in 

 regard to our business from the work which has been done 

 there. Within the last few years we have had the agri- 

 cultural college of New Hampshire located very near the 

 border of Massachusetts, and we have taken a great interest 

 in the work that is beino; done there. It has been seen fit 

 by the committee of arrangements to call upon the president 

 of that college to speak here this afternoon. His subject is 

 "Industrial Education," and I now take pleasure in in- 

 troducing to you Dr. C. S. Murkland of Durham, N. H. 



