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first, agricultural publications of our own State, because the information 

 contained in them is better adapted to farming inMichigan, than would 

 be any foreign production. 



Enter into a generous and manly rivalry with your neighbor, in the 

 management of your farm, your stock, and your dairy ; let each strive 

 to excel his neighbor in all the minutise of farming. If such a spirit and 

 feeling is kept ahve, you have nothing to fear for your calling, but much 

 to be proud of. 



A few words to the young riftn and women of our county, and I 

 have done. 



To the former, I would say, soon you will occupy the places of those 

 who have grown gray in the service of agriculture and the arts. In 

 their day and generation they labored to support you, to educate you, 

 to beautify and improve the patrimony you will in due time be called 

 upon to enjoy ; their time and talents have boep put in requisition as 

 much for your future, as for themselves in days gone by; prove your- 

 selves worthy of the inheritance, which, though it may consist only of 

 a sound, practical education, is more valuable far, than the richest mine 

 of Australia. Recollect that our best and most valued men, through 

 the whole history of our Republic, were taken from the farm, and the 

 mechanic shop ; that they started in hfe penniless, with no broad acres 

 or well filled purses to back them in their first struggles for wealth and 

 fame — but with an indomitable will, which no adverse circumstances 

 could control, with soundly educated minds, guided by virtuous and 

 industrious habits, they climbed the ladder of fame step by step, until 

 they reached the topmost round. Follow their example, and success 

 will follow you. A good name, patient industry, and a determination 

 to excel in your calling, will bring you wealth and fame, crown your 

 gray hairs with honore, and strengthen your declining years with a 

 consciousness that you have done your duty to yourself, and to those 

 who are to follow in your footsteps. 



It may be considered entirely gratuitous in me, at this time, and up- 

 on this occasion, to venture even a sentence of commendation or ad- 

 vice to our young ladies ; yet I conceive it to be as much within the 

 province of an agricultural address, as any matter which could be em- 

 bodied in one. 



