80 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 



fields and meadows are to be tilled and made productive by their 

 labor; and having finished their course of study and employment, 

 they will go forth in each returning year, to spread broadcast the 

 principles of a sound, practical agricultural education. 



Farmers of New- York, it is for you, and you alone, to add to 

 the fund by which so much good is to be accomplished. Be as 

 true to your calling as others are to theirs; work and give, for it 

 is the cause of agriculture — the basis of your own and the coun- 

 try's independence, wiiich is to receive your aid; to be returned 

 tenfold by the clear heads and sturdy arms, which will be ever 

 ready to vindicate the cause and the instruction, of which they 

 themselves are the acknowledged recipients. 



Farmers of New- York, you constitute the great body of its 

 intelligent and useful citizens; on you emphatically devolves the 

 duty of advancing and protecting your own great interest and 

 occupation. As you shall perform that duty, so will you prove 

 yourselves worthy of the name you bear, of the occupation you 

 pursue, and the true guardians of the great and vital Interests of 

 the Republic. 



