schools, where every man's child can be educated, — the circur m 

 lation of useful agricultural papers and books, — the further « 

 encouragement of the State in behalf of this great and long y 

 neglected interest, and the hearty, zealous co-operation of our 

 working men in the efforts of that society which now submits 

 its first annual report for your consideration. 



C. L. MURRAY, Secretary, 



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ADDRESS 



Dtiir)ered before the Elkhart County Agricultural Society, by Hon. E. M. Chamber- 

 lain, August 2, 1851. 



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Ma. Editor : — In submitting the following extract from my hastily writtettiTi 

 address to the press for publication, in compliance with the vote of the Elk 

 hart County Agricultural Society at its last meeting, I regret that I have not 

 had time to revise and prepare it more suitably for the public. But so it is, 

 and I therefore submit it without correction or alteration, excepting in the 

 curtailment of a portion of the introductory, and less practical part of it. 



Very respectfully, 



E. M. CHAMBERLAIN. 



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And now, fellow citizens of Elkhart county, let me congratulate you upon-.Q 

 the fact, that in the organization of this society, you have taken the first step 

 in a movement calculated more effectually to promote your true interests, 

 than any thing else that could be done. Elkhart county is, in a peculiar '- 

 manner, an agricultural county, and this step has been taken in the right di--?r» 

 rection. Our success, and the great benefits to be accomplished, must depend, 

 upon our perseverence. And in order to attain that end, we all have some- 

 thing to do. We all can do something. And if we all do all we can, ulti* " 

 mate success will be certain. ..I 



Before entering more in detail into a consideration of the specific obejct8,j^ 

 we seek to accomplish, allow me to at least call your attention to a few facta, 

 relative to subjects of a more general character, which it seems to me our far- 

 mers in northern Indiana have already too long and too generally overlooked* " 

 Have we not confined ourselves too exclusively to a single article of produc- , 

 tion ? Could we not, even under the circimistances by which we have been 



