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fected, as capital can make them ? The larger the 

 scale also upon which any business, farming included, 

 can be conducted, the better ; provided only the 

 capital is in proportion to the business done; and when 

 we say that nine-tenths of our fanners are farming too 

 large asurface, we only mean that they are attempting 

 more than they have ? or ivill vse, the capital to do 

 thoroughly and well. 



Farmers of Massachusetts ! I ask you to bear in mind 

 that it is not your only end in life, still speaking 

 Agriculturally, to secure a comfortable and honored 

 livelihood from one year's end to another, as the 

 seasons gather themselves in succession to the mighty 

 harvest of the past, as the little faces around your 

 firesides are putting on the soberer guise of more 

 thoughtful years, as the frosts of an autumn to which 

 there is no springtime of renewing verdure, begin to 

 whiten upon your temples. I ask you that it should 

 be your aim to secure that livelihood in such a way as- 

 shall add to the dignity and solid attractiveness of your 

 pursuit for those who are just coming on to the stage, 

 and whose selection of the parts to which their lives 

 shall be devoted, will be so greatly influenced by the 

 results of your lives and the teachings of your example, 

 I ask you to take your part in the farther improvement 

 of the farming of the State, not alone in your own 

 interest and in that of the community in which you 

 live, but for the sake of the generation which is to 

 follow in your footsteps. It is not that I would urge 

 you to any mingling of high sounding words or theories, 

 but yet imperfectly understood, in the round of your 

 daily labors. It is not that I would present the pic- 

 ture that might be drawn, of a wooing and gentle and 



