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arrive at is the truth, let it land us where it may. We should 

 do ourselves and the public a great wrong to abandon the ex- 

 periment without a fair and thorough trial. Tenants may be 

 discouraged and fail from want of skill, capital or other cause, 

 in arriving at a profitable result, but one failure, or two, or 

 many, does not settle the question. How many enterprises 

 have proved in the end profitable, which have gone through 

 difficulties, that seemed at times insurmountable? It is very 

 easy to doubt and to throw distrust upon any undertaking, but 

 is it right to defeat by anticipation an object of so much impor- 

 tance as the development of a great practical truth ? We 

 ought to indulge the hope of success, at the same time we 

 should not fear to meet with failures. It is no failure whatev- 

 er the event may be, if we give the experiment a fair trial, for 

 this is the task, let it be repeated, this society has taken upon 

 itself. It is not responsible for the result of it, — this rests 

 not with us — but we are bound to the performance of the 

 duty voluntarily assumed by us, and every member of the 

 Society should aid the tenant by his experience and en- 

 courage him in the discharge of his difficult task, by his 

 ounsels. Indeed most substantial aid has been rendered by- 

 one who has taken from the start an active and intelligent in 

 terest in the farm, as will be seen by the following communica- 

 tion : 



Lynnmere, Oct. 26thj 1863. 

 Allen W. Dodge, Esq., 



Dear Sir, — I think that the Treadwell Farm ought to have 

 a decided turn given to its management by the adoption of 

 some one branch of agricultural industry, not to the exclusion 

 of others, but to which others should be subservient. I have 

 thought over the matter a good deal for the purpose of satisfy- 

 ing myself as to what the farm can accomplish under good" 

 management, as a stock, dairy, vegetable, grain-growing or 

 fruit producing farm, connecting it with the idea of making one 

 of these the primaxy object of culture. There is no doubt that 

 the land is capable of growing good roots and good corn, and 



