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ours ; 80 much is to be done in clearing away the wilderness, in making 

 roads, bridges and fences; in erecting barns and houses, &c. So much 

 also is to be done in the domestic department, within doors, in time of 

 health, and especially in seasons of general sickness ; and besides, help 

 in the field, the shop and the house, is so scarce, wages so dear, and the 

 clear profits of the old system of husbandry so limited, that men are 

 now shut up to the necessity of devising some plan by which there 

 may be a saving of at least a little of the bone and sinew and the 

 marrow of life. 



Something by which the cow and the horse, the sheep and the swine, 

 with a little extra care and expense, may bo doubled or even trebled in 

 value. There needs to be, and there will be a speedy introduction of 

 the best and the most economical labor saving machines ; an improve- 

 ment in the blood of stock, as well as in the management of it; more 

 pains taken in the kinds of grain raised, as well as in their cultivation. 

 More attention must and will be given to the raising of root crops, 

 somewhat after the manner of English husbandry. There should and 

 ■will be raised a choicer variety of fruits. The vegetable garden must 

 and will receive a greater share of attention, and a beautiful flower gar- 

 den will have a more prominent place in the labors of the fathers and 

 of the sons, in the attentions of the wives and of the daughters. I re- 

 peat: All these things must and will be done. The mind of man 

 hath so decreed; the finger of Providence points it out; the necessities 

 of the case demand it at our hands. And in these most desirable 

 changes in the labors, habits, tastes, enjoyments and resources of the 

 inhabitants of this county, the agricultural society, whose fair wo have 

 this day attended, "will bear no insignificant part. Her agency will be 

 prominent ; her light will be like the moon in the midst of a starless 

 night. 



Some may, indeed, for a time hold on to their prejudices, but like 

 the drifts of snow before the vernal sun, they will gradually melt away. 

 Others may urge aristocracy and favoritism, and through self-will make 

 a desperate effort to outdo by their motives, and otherwise, those who 

 have been at much expense in setting in operation plans of reform; but 

 all this will only prove the truth of our proposition, and accomplish the 

 very thing desired, viz.: general improvement in agriculture, in the arts, 



