368 [Assembly 



CHEMUNG. 



The annual exhibition of this society was held at Horse Heads, 

 September 30j and was an occasion of no ordinary interest. 



The exhibition of horses, cattle, sheep and swine, was most en- 

 couraging, and the dairy department, as well as fruits and vegeta- 

 bles, was well represented. The domestic manufactures was most 

 creditable to the ladies. The show of agricultural implements 

 was most creditable to the exhibitors, placing within the reach of 

 the farmers, the most improved and valued implements of the 

 present day. 



The address before the society, which was delivered by the Rev. 

 David Murdock, D.D., Avas a very able one and was listened to 

 with deep interest, and was published with the proceedings of the 

 society and extensively circulated. 



After a very able discussion, in which duty of the farmers 

 to prepare themselves to maintain their proper places at the 

 present day, when all departments of science and art, of com- 

 merce and trade, are at the top speed of improvement, the ad- 

 dress concludes : 



'' These are wide fields for discussion, and what I have said is 

 more intended to excite investigation in the young farmer than to 

 exhaust the subject ; and also to rouse up the public spirited man 

 to do something towards the remedying of those evils which arise 

 from ignorance among the people ! Knowledge here lies at the 

 foundation of individual and national prosperity. It is all in 

 _ vain to build railroads and cities, unless we have something to 

 send over the one, and to feed the other. Nothing can do but the 

 wealth of the land, increased by an intelligent population, and the 

 highest culture of the fruit of the earth. 



" And how is this intelligence to be gained ? We hear of an ag- 

 ricultural institute to be established as a model farm by the State, 

 where our youth may receive the proper kind of instruction; and 

 every well wisher to the country should ursje our Legislators to 

 move in that matter , and in every other mode of education tend- 



