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distributed as premiums ; and tliey will form an important and attractive 

 addition to the usual premium list. 



The Annual Address was delivered by Nelson W. Butts, Esq., on 

 the Fair ground. The best comment upon it is the vote of the Society, 

 upon hearing it, to extend its usefulness by publication, which was ac- 

 cordingly done. 



No further report has been presented by the Committee appointed to 

 purchase a piece of land ; but it is understood that negociations have 

 been suspended for the present, owing to the want of funds in the treas- 

 ury available for the purchase. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. For the Executive Commit- 

 tee, 



F. H. RANKIN, Recording Secretary. 



ADDRESS 



DELIVERED ON THE 6tH OP OCTOBER, 1853, AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL FAIR 

 OF THE GENESEE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. ^ 



BY NELSON W. BUTTS, ESQ. 



Fellow-Citizkns : — The Annual Fair of the Genessee Countv Ac:- 

 gricultural Society has excited an interest becoming the occasion, and is 

 an evidence of the high claims which its object has upon the commu- 

 nity at large. 



The earth was by Divine appointment to furnish subsistence for man. 

 We are informed from sacred history that when the earth and the hea- 

 vens were created, there was not a man to till the ground. Man, was, 

 therefore, created and placed in a garden called Eden, not to lie down 

 in idleness, and vegetate luxuriously like the plants and herbs which 

 adorned his paradise ; but to dress and keep it. And, though from 

 transgression of God's law, he was driven from this state of innocency 

 and happiness, and condemned to a life of solicitude and toil ; and 

 though for his sake the earth was cursed, and was to produce thorns 

 and thistles, and he to gain his bread from the sweat of his brow ; yet 

 it is evident that in the economy of his creation, as well as in the ap- 

 pointment of his lot, he was destined for active employment. An 

 English poet has said, with some poetic license — 



" The proper study of mankind is man." 



