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Professor Sanboen. You want to disi; them out. When 

 I was a boy I used to mow them, and recently I saw the 

 same bushes that farmers have mowed annually for twenty 

 years ; every rock in the field is familiar, and they are 

 ploughing right around them, as they were twenty years ago ; 

 and I said, " What a spirit these men have! Talk about 

 farming ! Why, those men do not know anything about 

 farming," Think of a man mowing around rocks and bushes 

 year after year. It is not farming ; it is not a fair, honest 

 pretence of farming. There is nothing brave or bold or 

 manly about such farming. It puts you to shame when you 

 think of it. 



Secretary Sessions . I want to say just one word in 

 relation to this question of Mr. Little's. Riding on the cars 

 a short time aijo I met a gentleman from the town of Prince- 

 ton in this State, and another seat-mate said to me, " You 

 ought to hear what he can tell you about getting rid of 

 brush in pastures," and of course I was interested, because 

 I have mowed brush, too. He said an application of salt 

 that would cover the ground and make it white around 

 these bushes would kill them completely out, and that he 

 could get a refuse salt for a very low price. It would kill 

 the grass, but by sowing grass seed the following season the 

 pasture was much improved. 



Mr. FiiExcii (of North Hampton, N. H.). I am an old 

 farmer ; I have been a farmer all my days. I am seventy- 

 six years old. My father was a minister of the gospel, and 

 he tried to make one of me, but I chose to be a farmer, 

 because I love farming. I love to see things grow and help 

 them grow. I love to work, and never believed that work 

 was a curse to any man. The great curse is laziness and 

 shiftlessness. I admire the remarks of our lecturer to-day, 

 and I can fully coincide with them in almost every respect. 

 I believe, as he does, that the only way to remove rocks and 

 stumps is to be thorough with them and tear out all the 

 bushes by the roots, instead of using salt or anything of the 

 kind. I have completely cleared up at least three-fourths 

 of all my pasture land, cleared it entirely from rocks, 

 bushes, stumps and everything of the kind, and put it all 

 into good mowing. I married a farm with my wife, and the 



