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refresh and irrigate a vast extent of dry and parched soil, aud will give it life 



and vigor. 



We have now about two hundred regular members of this Society, and great 



zeal is manifested. Our meetings are well attended, and interesting subjects are 



discussed, rendering this Society not only agricultural but intellectual ; and if it 



were not for the pressure of the times, and the migrating disposition at present 



prevalent among us, we should muster a Society of five hundred members at 



least. If you should require any further information I shall be most happy to 



furnish it. 



Yours very truly, 



T. J. RAND, 



Sec. of the Kenosha Agr. Society. 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



ADDRESS OF DR. SAMUEL R. McCLELLAN, 



PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETV, 



Delivered before the Kenosha County Agricultural Society, at its Annual Fair, 

 held September 23d and 24th, A.D. 1851. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: 



By the by-laws of the Agricultural Society of the county of Kenosha, 

 it is my duty to address you. 



We have met under circumstances at once novel and interesting ; novel, from 

 the fact that not one of us who are here participating in this agricultural exhibi- 

 tion is a native of the soil we inhabit. 



We have come not only from the several States of the American Union, but 

 almost every country of Europe has here its representatives. From the green Isle 

 of Erin — they are here; from the chalky cliffs of England — they are here; from 

 the high lands and the low lands of Scotland — they are here ; from the sunny 

 banks of the Rhine ; from the vine-clad hills of France ; yea, and from the ice- 

 bound coasts of Sweden, and of Norway — they are here ; presenting the inter- 

 esting spectacle of a people dissimilar in language, education and habits, hanno- 

 niously uniting for the upbuilding of a sovereign state under the broad banner 

 of. republican independence. 



A practical commentary, this, on man's capacity for self-government. 



Our progress hitherto has been unrivalled. — A few short years ago, our fields, 

 now waving with the golden harvest, lay in all the original solitude of Nature, 



