174 N. H. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



tages of those whose business is the cultivation of the 

 earth. 



It is the object of this society to excite a spirit of agricul- 

 tural improvement, to meliorate the quality of our stock, 

 to introduce the culture of better grains, grasses and other 

 vegetables, and to adopt new and improved modes of cul- 

 tivating our farms generally, and to diffuse more widely a 

 knowledge of these improvements. 



"Whatever, therefore, advances the science or interests 

 of general husbandry; whatever goes to enable the farmer 

 to raise more produce with less labor; indeed, whatever 

 has a tendency to better his condition, to elevate his char- 

 acter and standing in the community to which he belongs, 

 falls properly within the objects of this society. 



What success shall attend our exertions, depends upon 

 our efforts. That, time alone must determine. 



Societies of this nature, established in other countries 

 and in other States, have had a favorable influence upon 

 the interests of agriculture. It would be a little singular 

 if the same causes operating here, should not here produce 

 the same effects. 



England is perhaps the best cultivated country in Europe. 

 She presents to the eye of the traveler one fine, cultivated 

 field. Most of her soil is artificial. It lias been made by 

 the enterprise and skill and the industry of her inhabi- 

 tants. Lime, clay, marl, peat, and all the varieties of 

 manures, and all the varieties of earth, all that can be 

 gathered from the vegetable and animal world, from the 

 ocean and the land, have been so applied, so mixed and 

 intermixed in her various processes of ' husbandry, tliat it 

 would be difficult to find a sod of original and native soil 

 now in cultivation. 



She has improved her breeds of cattle, horses, sheep and 

 swine, by importations from other countries. And she has 

 been no less attentive to improve the quality of the pro- 

 ductions of her soil, by importing new species of grains, 



