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With these facts before us, we are confident that the business of our 

 county will soon be pushed with renewed vigor, for we may look for- 

 ward to the next season, as being one that will call for the greatest 

 activity in every pursuit, and one that will crown with success every 

 reasonable undertaking. 



ADDRESS 



DELIVERED BEFORE THE KENT COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



BY REV. E. PRINCE. 



Gentlemen and Ladies of the Kent County A. <£' H. Society: 



By the request of your Executive Committee, I appear to address 

 you, on this your fifth anniversary. 



I do not occupy your time in making apologies, as is too often the 

 case, on such and similar occasions, but cheerfully proceed to my task. 

 When we read of the great agricultural exhibitions of Europe, aad 

 the old settled parts of our own country, consider their wealth and age, 

 ■we can but esteem ourselves, as a small and very delicate scion, cut offj 

 we scarcely know from what, and but just grafted into that stock, which 

 we believe, is destined, with the mpidity almost of the prophet's gourd, 

 to grow and flourish, until every valley and hill from this to the Pacific, 

 is cultivated like a garden. Though a tender scion, we may, if we 

 will, receive all that nourishment or knowledge, which is the result of 

 long and deep research, proved by mathematical demonstrations and 

 experiments, and thus arrive, in a short period, to that state of comfort 

 and high moral and intellectual elevation, that has been the labor of 

 centuries to perfect. Though much has been done, the field for im- 

 provement is yet open wide before us, and it is for us to say whether 

 we will proceed, stand still, or retrograde. The specimens now before 

 us, of the products of the soil, our stock, our implemenis of agriculture, 

 the mechanical arts, the handy and tasty needlework and fine paintings 

 -of our ladies, their beautiful butter and cheese, the interest they mani- 

 fest on this occasion, above all as exhibited in their smiling faces, cheer 

 us on and say go forward. 



