ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY SOCIETY. 



Annual Show and Fair held 6th, 7th and 8th of October, 1857. 

 Of this the Secretary writes as follows ; 



"The exhibition was a grand one, especially of stock, probably 

 equal to any in the State. In agricultural implements and crops it 

 was not very satisfactory. Our labors have exerted a very good 

 influence, much benefit having been derived from the introduction of 

 choice stock and improved modes of culture." 



AN ADDEESS 



Delivered before the Androscoggin, and also before the Franklin and Kennebec Agri- 

 cultural Societies, October, 1857, by Rbt. C. H. Webster, Auburn. 



Mr. President — Ladies and Gentlemen : — The labor to which 

 you have called me is by no means an irresponsible labor. "What 

 may be said here to-day, ought to have an influence for good upon 

 all our industrial pursuits and interests ; and if what may be said 

 here shall be just and proper to the occasion, it will have such an 

 influence : operating upon every department of industry and profit — 

 comfort and prosperity. 



The interests of your Society are confined to no one industrial 

 pursuit. The farmer does not constitute your only necessary man 

 of labor, neither does your mechanic. Your victories and honors are 

 to be won fi-om every branch of toil — from field and forest — from 

 workshop and rivor. And yet we must regard the agriculturist 

 and his vocation as the basis of what we are. He is a sovereign. 

 Earth, with her wide prairies and swelling arteries — with her 

 fertile valleys and sky-crowned mountains — with her inland seas 



