667 



CLASS XXXII. DESIGNS. 



Best plan for farm liouse with estimates, F. Kelly, $2 00 



2d best " " Alva Preston, 1 00 



Plan for horse barn, W. Hildreth, discretionary premium, 50 



Best plan for village cottage, Kelly, discretionary premium, 1 00 



CLASS XXXIII. NATIVE CATTLE. 



Best cow 4 years old or over, Stodard W. Twitchell, $1 60 



2d best cow 4 '• N. M. Sanders, 1 00 



3d best cow 4 " J. Ilumsey, 50 



Best pair 2 year old steers, I. Ide, 1 00 



Best 2 bull calves 6 months old, L. C. Crittenden, 1 00 



Best steer calf 5 months old, Walter Gorton, 50 



2d best " 5 " A. Gorton, 50 



ADDRESS 



OF nON. F. J. LITTLEJOHN, DELIVERED BEFORE THE THIRD ANNUAL FAIR 

 OP THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY' AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fellow Citizens — Permit me to preface ray remarks by congrat- 

 ulating you upon the excellence of your agricultural exhibition; and 

 also upon the decided interest in your future success, manifested by 

 this numerous and respectable assembly. In the views I may express 

 to-day, I shall carefully ab-^tain from the details of your profession, 

 both for the reason that agricultural science cfinnot be successfully 

 taught in a single address, and because my masters in the art are 

 standing before me. My object is to awaken enquiry and provoke in- 

 vestigation. For this purpose, you will allow me to draw upon the 

 past, and anticipate the future. 



The spontaneous productions of the earth, in their primal condition, 

 were never designed to supply the varied wants of man. In the 

 aystem of Providential economy, both mental and physical labor are 

 essential pre-requisites for the attainment of many things, alike nec- 

 essary and desirablo for human use. The seasons may wheel their 

 accustomed rounds, the sun may pour forth his effulgent beams, fer- 

 tilizing rains may descend upon the lap of earth, genial breezes may 



