this thing has been done. The American farmer went to 

 Europe and bought some of the best animals, and see what 

 they have done for the whole land ! Where is the farmer 

 now-a-days who is not pleased to sed a little of the yellow 

 blood of the Alderney under the hair of his cow, or to have an 

 animal he happens to own compared to the Jersey ? We find 

 animals now bringing prices which in those old days seenled 

 fabulous. It is a very little time, also, since a horse sold in 

 this country has brought as high a price as a $1000. People 

 said it was all very well for those who could afford it to raise 

 fine horses ; but they were luxuries and subserved no useful 

 end. But what would they say of this great improvement in 

 cattle ? A gentleman once went to Europe and bought a 

 merino sheep at great expense, and brought it to America. 

 The people said it was a foolish outlay of money ; that it couldn't 

 be acclimated, etc.; but an arrival of this same breed, raised 

 in America, has since been sent back again to its native land 

 in Silesia, and even carried away the highest prize for excel- 

 lence in that country. We have also made a vast improve- 

 ment in agriculture. Look at the increased number of fruits 

 that your past President, Mr, Wilder — (applause) — has 

 shown here, compared with what he could have shown twenty- 

 five years ago. See the fruits that have come out of the old 

 Walker nursery ; they have made an impression throughout 

 the country, way down in Delaware and Pennsylvania. We 

 in New England actually live on the mother soil of the world. 

 When we go out to the farms in the west, we are apt to think 

 that that is the only place for the farmer ; but the fact is, fully 

 as much can be done in New England by mechanical and 

 scientific processes, and by using all the means which are 

 placed in the hands of the farmer here. These old pudding- 



