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cal man, though it may be to the pretender and the empiric. But 
the deeper he drinks at the Perian Spring, the more he will profit 
by the draught. Too many farmers have practically studied only 
how they can soonest exhaust their lands past recuscitation, by 
constant cropping from year to year, and themselves and their 
soil have been bankrupted by the same improvident and ignorant 
act. Hard manual labor and brute force must give place to mind 
and machinery. Calculation must succeed chance. The forces 
and obstacles of nature are only to be rightly controlled, utilized 
or overcome by science. 
If the young farmer will adopt some system for the division of 
his time; if he will apportion the hours of study and amusement, 
of work and repose, he can enter upon this ample field of study 
with the foreknowledge that to pursue it to its ultimate results 
will ensure him a grand success. 
I thank this indulgent audience for the patience with which 
they have endured the tedium, not in the length, but in the style 
of my address, but trust, if I shall have been the means of in¬ 
citing inquiry and discussion upon this topic, that their time and 
atttention have not been entirely thrown away. 
This paper contains many wise and thoughtful suggestions, 
and is cordially commended to the readers of this volume. 
Secretary Field offered the following resolution which had been 
handed him by a delegate, whose name was not obtained. 
“ Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention the prosecution by the 
state government of the geological survey of our state, and the publication of 
the facts and observations already acquired, will not only tend to develop our 
industry, but will directly and indirectly subserve our success as agricul¬ 
turalists.” 
Mr. Rogers said that every farm possessed a diversity of soils, 
and that if we could have reliable information how best to utilize 
the lands and make them more profitable to the farmer by the 
results of this survey, he for one was in favor of it. The resolu¬ 
tion was adopted. 
Mr. Flint offered the following: 
“ Whereas, Great damage and destruction has comb to our flocks of sheep 
from dogs and wolves, and that said damage and destruction is constantly in¬ 
creasing, rendering the keeping of sheep, almost impracticable; therefore 
