113 REPORT OP THE SECRETARY OP THE 



THE ADDRESSES. 



Jtjdge Littlejohn delivered a very elaborate address at the 

 fair on Thursday, September 29th, and was followed by Grover- 

 Dor Baldwin, who expressed his delight at the progress made 

 in Western Michigan, as follows : 



GOV. Baldwin's address. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : — I did not come here either for 

 the purpose, or with the expectation, of being called upon to 

 say a single word, and if I had come here with that purpose, 

 I should feel that it was necessary to forego it for the reason 

 as yon have already perceived, I am suffering from a severe 

 hoarseness and cold, which renders it utterly impossible for 

 me to speak on this occasion. But, ladies and gentlemen, 

 while I shall not inflict upon you, or detain you hero with any 

 extended remarks of mine, I feel it a pleasure that I have the 

 privilege of being with you on an occasion of this kind, in 

 this lovely portion of our beautiful and fertile State. [Cheers.] 

 I congratulate you, my fellow citizens, on the improvement 

 manifested, and the increasing improvement felt and witnessed, 

 throughout the length and breadth of our land, in everything 

 pertaining to agricultural pursuits. [Applause.] 



Fifty years ago, or a little more, what did we know, what 

 was known, and, less still, what was thought of the doctrine 

 and practice of rotation in crops ? What improvements, what 

 wonderful improvements have been made in agricultural im- 

 plements! It has been said — I have somewhere read it — that 

 fifty yfars ago, a good strong man could carry upon his shoul- 

 ders the entire implements of a faxm, except the cart and that 



