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The Oneida county Agricultural Society has thus far had a 

 successful career, both in interest and usefulness, and the last 

 exhibition numbered the twelfth since its organization. 



Officers for the present year are as follows : 



President — Roland S. Doty, Rome ; Vice-Presidents, George 

 Bristol, Kirkland ; Thos. R. Walker, Utica ; Executive com- 

 mittee, John Thompson, Augusta; Thomas D. Penfield, Cam- 

 den; Daniel G. Drummond, Lee; H. N. Carey, Marcy; Hen- 

 ry llhodes, Trenton; J". W, Jones, Utica; George Benedict, 

 Verona; Jairus Knapp, Westmoreland; James H. Sherrill, New 

 Hartford ; Treasurer, Henry R. Hart, Whitestown ; Secretary, 

 Levi T. Marshall, Vernon, 



L. T. MARSHALL, Secretary. 



Extracts from the Address of Hon. George Geddes. 



I have tried to show that the State of New-York (and no part 

 of it more than Oneida) stands first in position, in soil, in means 

 of intercommunication, in climate and in men; and for all these 

 reasons has higher hopes of the future than any other par.t of this 

 new world ; and if so, of this new world, then of all the world. 



In 1783, the Father of our Country, impressed with the advan- 

 tages of this very spot, in a letter to the Marquis of Castellaux, 

 said: "Taking a comprehensive view of the vast inland naviga- 

 tion of the United States, I could but be struck with the immense 

 diffusion and importance of it, and ^vith the goodness of that 

 Providence who had dealt his favors to us with so profuse a hand. 

 Would to God that we may liave wisdom to improve them.'' 

 The prayer Jias been granted, and your vast natural advantages 

 have been improved with a vigor and energy never equalled. 



This is the age of improvement, and everywhere the rapidity 

 of our progress is a subject of congratulation. The great inven- 

 tions in which all classes of men are directly interested are fully 

 appreciated ; but those that pertain exclusively to our ow^n call- 

 ing being of a more humble character, in this age of steam and 

 electricity, are apt to be passed by with less consideration than 

 they really deserve. 



