Excerpt from Transactions of the Norfolk Agricultural Society for 1876
This is the season when you have frequent opportunities to listen to lengthy, but I hope not always tedious, political dis courses; and I trust that you will, therefore, commend my good will toward you, when I assure you that I shall not solicit your attention for more than fifteen minutes.
The circumstance that I am a native of the County of Nor folk has led the officers of this Society to honor me with an invitation to make some observations upon the general sub jcet which has called you together. My associations with the county are not due to early recollections, and the special regard which I entertain, and ever must entertain for it, is derived largely from the long-ago conversations of my hon ored parents concerning their old home in the wealthy and attractive town of Brookline.
Farming, in the country sense of the word, is no longer a leading pursuit among you, and its relative importance diminishes each year. The farms have been divided for country residences and market gardens, and the culture of the great staples of agriculture has been transferred to the interior of the State, and to remote sections of the Union. Land is too valuable for corn, grass, wheat, cattle in great herds, and even for the coarser and least valuable fruits and vegetables.
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