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The opening address of President Hutchinson in the new Pavilion, 

 at the opening of tliat building on September 14th, in the evening, 

 was fully up to the spirit of the occasion, as shown by the following 

 paragraphs: 



Gentleynen of the State Agricultural Society : Our hands have seized the f)low and we must not 

 falter. Vv'e have a glorious prospect before us — afield rich in every attribute, beautiful in every 

 aspect; bounded only by the limits of the commonwealth. The work wliich we have begun 

 cannoc, must not retrograde. Like the seeds sown in our valleys, it will germinate and bear 

 fruit. Ainid broad fields laden with golden harvests: amid green pastures and fragrant flowers; 

 amid tempting groves where the oi'ange blooms and the vine yields abundant fruit, tlie voice 

 of invitation is heard and the assurance of reward. * •■■' * Gentlemen, the advantages 

 to which we have thus briefly alluded need but be known abroad — reliablj' circulated among 

 the masses — to be embraced by thousands. To collect facts and disseminate them; to accumu- 

 late in tangible form the scattered truths which experience here has taught to us and spread 

 them over the world for public information, are important purposes of this Society. The bril- 

 liant disjjlay presented here to-night assures us that your efforts in this behaff will not be 

 fruitless. 



On the evening of the 15th of September, W. H. Rhodes pronounced 

 in the Pavilion a poem entitled " Lost and Found." The poet saw 

 Adam and Eve go out of the eastern gates of the Garden, and followed 

 them and their descendants through all the countries and ages of the 

 world, ever looking west in search of the Eden they had lost, down 

 to the present time. The closing stanza announced Eden found: 



•'•■ Where then is Eden ? Ah ! Why should I tell 

 What every eye and bosom knows so well? 

 Why name the land all other lands have blessed, 

 And traced for ages to the distant West? 

 Why seek in vain throughout the historic page 

 For Eden's Gai-den and the Golden Age? 

 Here! Brothers, here! no further let ufi roam, 

 Here is the Garden ! Eden is our home ! " 



Colonel E. i). Baker was expected to deliver the annual address, 

 but professional business having prevented his meeting his engage- 

 ment, Judge Tod Robinson, of Sacramento, was substituted, and 

 addressed the Society on the evening of the 16th September. He 

 deprecated the lack of proper provision for agricultural education in 

 our schools and colleges, and showed the importance to the farmer 

 and to civilization of such education, and urged that greater attention 

 be given to the matter by those most interested. He enumerated the 

 sciences that related to agriculture and pointed out their relations, 

 and urged the necessity of teaching farmers' sons in these sciences as 

 well as lawyers, doctors, and other professional men are taught in the 

 principles that pertain to their professions. 



Let this be done. Let this improvement take place. Let this encouragement be given to 

 asrriculture and it at once ceases to be an inferior caliincr, and it will rise in the estimation of the 

 community to a point higher thaii awj language of mine can express. Why, how little of this 

 has been considered. Take an exemplification : We have two newspapers devoted to the cause 

 of the success of agriculture, and for two montlis they have been contending whether it was the 

 best to cut the tap root of a young tree or leave it on. While I do not pretend to say wliich is 

 right, I must confess my surprise that at this late day a question so simple in its character 

 should be a subject of dispute. Here the world has been engaged in tlie jiractiee of agriculture 

 six tliousand years, and one of the simplest questions is yet uudetei'mined. But let agriculture 

 be treated as a science; let the sons of farmers secure such an education as I have described, and 

 iu ten years' time, or even less, not only this but many other questions will be removed and 

 settled by well established and settled rules. 



Colonel Ed. D. Baker being in the city on the evening of the 21st 

 of September, delivered before the Society, in the evening, extempo- 



