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Suffice it to say, from what has already been said — from the contraot 

 already drawn, I would urge the importance of doing things well, of 

 doing everything in the season for doing it, and of taking more pains 

 in the improvement of our stock ; of selecting none but the best of 

 samples for seed ; and of purchasing as implements of husbandry, and 

 of the various occupations you pursue, none but the moat improved ar- 

 ticles. Good farming makes good farms and rich farmers. GKxkI 

 mechanism finds a good market and plenty of employment. It costs 

 no more to raise a bushel of pure wheat than it does of foul ; no more 

 to raise a blooded cow worth $30 than it does an inferior one worth but 

 $15. It takes just as long to plow an acre with a bad plow poorly, m 

 it does to plow the same land with a good plow in a workmanlike man- 

 ner. None of these suggestion are new, but nevertheless they are wor- 

 thy of consideration. 



Ladies and gentlemen, of the display made here on this occasion, you 

 need not be ashamed. Seldom at an exhibition like this in a county so 

 new, so recently poverty stricken and bankrupt, can such a grand dis- 

 play be made of such fine horses, such beautiful cattle, such fine wooled 

 sheep, or such an excellent variety of the various articles included in th<= 

 list of premiums awarded on this occasion. 



Let us return to our respective places of abode, feeling that it has 

 been good for na that we have been up hither, and with the full deter- 

 mination that we will become better farmers, better mechanics, and bet- 

 ter manufacturers ; that we will raise better stock, and better grain ; that 

 we will make better butter, better cheese ; that we wOI make better 

 manufactured articles of every kind. In short, that we will become l>etter 

 husbands, better wives, better fathers, and better mothei-s, (and may I nol 

 say to the young who are now listening to me.) better sons and bett-fT 

 daughters. 



