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every kind. We have more sheep — nearly a sixth of all in the State 

 ■ — more hogs, and more value of live stock. We raise more wheat — 

 mearly a seventh of all raised — more rye, more corn, more oats, more 

 potatoes, more wool, more orchard products — have more butter, more 

 cheese, and more hay than any county in the State. The articles on 

 exhibition here to-day, proclaim our supremacy in unmistakeable lan- 

 guage. And at the present prices of agricultural products, shall not 

 our county yet advance in all the elements of prosperity ? 



Having within the past six months visited ten of the States of our 

 Union, it has been my pride to compare our State with other and older 

 States ; and what more than all else has favorably impressed upon my 

 mind our progress and prosperity, is the neat and tidy appearance of 

 our dwellings, farm and outbuildings — those conveniences and comforts 

 which so peculiarly manifest thrift. In this country, when a house has 

 a tumbled-down look, its owner, it is safe to conclude, has a most deci- 

 ded tumble-down-into-the-gutter look. Like spots on the sun, these 

 sights are rare. It is more common to see the man whose axe cleared 

 the forest from the spot where his canvass-covered wagon was his first 

 shelter from the storm and dew, now surrounded by every comfort that 

 industry affords. His white house, his barns, his cattle, his orchard, his 

 neat garden, and well-fenced fields, all his own, are the ample rewards 

 of his toil. In our county, the log cabin, with its blazing fire and 

 wholesome cheer is almost foi-gotten. 



Surrounded as we are by these multiplied evidences of thrift, there 

 never was a period, perhaps, that pointed so earnestly to the future. We 

 must learn what that future has in store for us. Where, in the wild 

 wood's shade, scarce the forest flower grew and flourished, fields are 

 now waving with the fruits of the earth. A vii-gin soil to till, and en- 

 ergy to till it, has been the cause of building up these States at the 

 we-st, and has done more for the remarkable and wonderful growth of 

 this country than all other agencies. The day is not distant when the 

 desert will be reached and passed. The Oregon already hears other 

 "sounds" 



" Save hiB own dashing." 



The busy Anglo-Saxon is there, and the Pacific will soon hem in the 

 western tide of emigration. That must be a barrier to further advance. 



