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ADDRESS, 



from the fact that working oxen are largely employed 

 here, in the labors of the farm, most of which are 

 probably reared and trained at home, and after their 

 term of service is over, may well be put up to fatten ; 

 your ready markets afford good inducements for the 

 breeding of calves and lambs, expressly to be fattened 

 by the farmer raising them. Secondly, the opportunity 

 of purchasing cattle and sheep coming into Brighton 

 and Cambridge, when markets are low, and those not 

 already in prime order can be bought to advantage, 

 and of then keeping them in pasture or stall until a 

 good market gives the means of selling at a fair return, 

 is one of which there are doubtless many among you who 

 frequently avail themselves. And, in the third place, 

 there is the surplus of the young stock bred in a higher 

 latitude, which naturally comes here to be "finished 

 off," if not to acquire the bulk of the flesh it must 

 attain for slaughter. 



Now, where the sources of supply of stock for 

 grazing and feeding, are so good as they must be here, 

 the farmer possesses perhaps the most advantageous of 

 all positions for bringing his farm into a fertile and 

 remunerative condition. Those of you whose experience 

 is of the longest standing will not have to be reminded 

 that the great need of the Agriculture of our older 

 States at the present time, is a more abundant supply of 

 fertilizing material. Manufacturers of artificial manures 

 are driving a better trade in New England probably 

 than in any other part of the country, now that the 

 impoverished lands of the South are mostly cut off from 

 their reach. Those of you who are familiar with the 

 printed treatises on Agriculture, from the earliest of 

 the ancient writers down to this most prolific century 



