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you havn't time enough to devote to it to make it a success. He 

 advocated greater variety of crops instead of depending on one 

 or two products. In concluding he gave points in favor of 

 farmers, of their conservative and moral influence in State 

 affairs. It might be said of the farms, they produce men. 



Rev. O. S. Butler of Georgetown, was not in accord with 

 what had been said and did not hesitate to make it known. He 

 said he liked to hear horny handed farmers defend their calling 

 when called upon, but thought some of the rose-colored speeches 

 he had listened to, the resources of imagination rather than that 

 of the farm had been drawn upon. He had found farming 

 profitable as long as he held a good government office. Farm 

 accounts are not easy to keep, but a farmer who raises five or 

 six boys, and perhaps a couple of skirls, gives them a college 

 education, and leaves them at death fifteen to twenty thousand 

 dollars, may be said to show a pretty successful account. He 

 said he used to raise four hogs a year, and supposed he cleared 

 $20, and when he kept account of expenses he found he was 

 losing %h a year on each. Since then he hadn't kept hogs. 

 He doubted the statement that only one business man in three 

 succeeds, but thought less than that proportion of professional 

 men achieve fame. The most successful farmers are men who 

 make money at outside business, and have a little left them 

 occasionally. About ten per cent, of the farms are mortgaged, 

 mostly held by savings banks. In conclusion, he gave it as 

 his opinion that any profession or business is successful, with 

 the right man in the right place ; it is the man, not the business. 

 One man may get rich sawing wood, while another gets poor 

 trading in gold; cream rises on top every time. The speaker 

 believed in farming, and said that a good place to be born and 

 to die, was on a farm. 



In the afternoon, Vice President, J. J. H. Gregory of 

 Marblehead, presided and Rev. O. S. Butler took the floor to 

 say a word in memory of the late Charles L. Feint a member 

 of this society, so widely known for his interest in, and his works 



