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At a meeting of the members of the Racine County Agricul- 

 tural Society, held on the Fair Grounds, at Union Grove, at the 

 close of the address of N. H. Dale, Esq., on the 25th day of Sep- 

 tember, 1856, the following resolution, offered by Zebina Bliss 

 Esq., of Burlington, was unanimously adopted : 



Besolved^ That this Society solicit a copy of the Address just 

 delivered by N. H. Dale, for publication. 



C. S. Chase, Secretary. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE 



RACINE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 

 On the Fair Ground at Union Grove^ September 25, 1856. 



BT N. H. DALE, ESQ. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — The occasion 

 that has called us together to-day is one of no small importance. 

 Connected, as it is, with the development of the principles of 

 natural science, and the application of those principles to agricul- 

 ture and the works of art — effecting, as we hope it will, our im- 

 provement, financially, intellectually, socially, and therefore 

 morally — identified as it necessarily must be, with our progress 

 in the arts of civilization, and with the formation and cultivation 

 of those characteristics that distinguish civilized from barbarous 

 nations — it justly merits the countenance and encouragement of 

 every one who wishes to see the community in which he lives 

 become wiser, happier, and more prosperous. And I rejoice to 

 see here to-day, so full a representation of the strength, the skill, 

 the learning, and the beauty of Racine county. But since our 

 Agricultural Society and its Annual Fair, are matters of so much 

 consequence — and since so many of the industrious and intelli- 

 gent of the county ha /"e, by their presence to-day, manifested an 

 interest in building up and sustaining the Society, I can but fear 

 that your President has committed an error in calling upon me 

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