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and industry are God's handmaids, as they are truth's. By 

 them we shall sain the consummation of human life. 



The Chaikman. The subject of salt marshes and salt hay 

 is one which is to be taken up -at this time. I am aware that 

 it is a subject that may not interest some of the farmers from 

 the western part of the State, but it is one of great import- 

 ance to farmers here on the coast, where more than three 

 thousand acres of salt meadow are used for the spontaneous 

 growth which they produce, and which we are learning to 

 harvest in an improved manner. I hope that we may receive 

 much greater benefit from these marshes than we have in the 

 past in the old way of harvesting the hay. The gentleman 

 who is to talk upon this subject has -done some very good work 

 in the way of preparing formulas for feeding dairy stock ; 

 and he has also done some very good work in making analyses, 

 and giving information in regard to this crop. I hope that he 

 may interest you all in this subject, although, as I said before, 

 it is one that may not be of importance to many of the 

 farmers who are present from a distance. It gives me 

 pleasure to introduce Prof. G. H. Whitcher of Durham, 

 N. H. 



