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Let me not be misunderstood. I would draw the line broad, and 
deep, and enduring, between a proper system of liberal feeding and 
all attempts at abnormal development, commonly known as pamp¬ 
ering. The one brings size, and vigor, and beauty, and insures 
their transmission with reasonable certainty; the other induces dis- 
ease and imbecility, and ends in disappointment to the breeder, or a 
swindle upon the purchaser. The one is worthy the attention and 
experiment of the highminded breeders who are the dependence of 
our future progress; the other has in it no utility that will compen¬ 
sate for the encouragement to deception that seems inseparable 
from its practice. 
I would have sheep breeders attain the highest possibilities and 
consequent profit of their calling, by escaping such mistakes and 
experiments as entail loss of time and money — that they may be 
enabled to transmit the talent committed to their care with such 
improvements as to warrant the plaudit of “ well done.” I would 
have the result of their labors to be such as to cause the grass to 
srrow or-reen beneath the feet, and the skies to seem bright over the 
heads of some men, so that when life’s shadows have grown long, 
they may find consolation in the fact that the world is better for 
their having lived in it. 
EDUCATION OF FARMERS’ SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 
BY ALBERT E. WOOD. 
Read before the Concord, Mag®., Farmers’ Club. 
It seems to me this is a subject coming directly home to us all. 
With the younger members of the Club it is a question of to-day. 
Hoio shall we educate our children? The older members have, 
fresh upon their minds, an experience from which they can draw 
words of wisdom for our benefit. 
I wish to say a few words to you to-night, looking back upon my 
own school days—looking all along through twenty-five years of 
life out of school, and looking anxiously at the present and forward 
to t\iQ future education of my children. I have always felt that a 
mistake was being made somewhere; that the fanners' sons, and 
