lilioSe finger boards by the way-side whicTi direct towards sue- 

 •cess in the ordinary pursuits of life. 



Success is the end and aim of every one's hopes and aspira- 

 tions ; and there is but little difference in the elements, or theit 

 combinations necessary to be used in obtaining the object of 

 tour pursuit, whatever may be our avocations. The same princi- 

 ples, carefully followed, will almost invariably lead to the same 

 1-esults, whether those principles are applied to agriculture, 

 commerce, mechanics, manufacture, or any of the professions-, 

 arts, or sciences. 



So interwoven iire all branches of business with agriculture, 

 that whatever affects the prosperity of that, directly or indirect- 

 ly interests all the others. Even war, with all its devastations, 

 is no exception to the rule ; and w'hile it finds constant employ- 

 ment for its grim reaper, death, it also sets in motion the wheels 

 of industry outside of its tracks of desolation, and it is 'con- 

 stantly demanding the cultivation of new fields beyond its rav- 

 ages, in order to supply its insatiable waste ; but upon no 

 branch depends so much the comfort and happiness of the 

 great body of the people as upon the sViccess of agriculture. 

 A failure in this branch of industry, if but of a single crop, or 

 even of a single staple production of a crop, brings misery, and 

 frequently ruin, to a large class of people. Therefore, who- 

 ever by theory or practice increases the natural useful products 

 of the earth, or improves the quality of those products, tends 

 to promote the happiness ol the whole community ; and may 

 be regarded as the special benefactor of all those within the 

 reach of his influence. 



I presume that it is a conceded fact that agriculture occupy- 

 ing, as of necessity it must, the most imporfifcnt, if not the 

 most honorable, place in all the branches of industry, has not 

 received that attention, nor been brought to that state of perfec- 

 tion, in New England, which almost every other occupation has 

 had and obtained. Nor have its pursuits been so amply re- 

 warded in position and wealth as those of many other branches 

 of labor. 



