by JosiAH Qdi.vcy, Jr. Esq. of Boston. As 

 every body who knew the speaker anticipated, 

 the effort was a noble one, and ^ve doubt 

 whether tlie addresses of any previous year, 

 ever gave more univeral satisfaction." 



What is said of the Address, is confirmed by 

 the common opinion of those who heard it. We 

 had not that good fortune, as the rostrum was 

 in quite a diflerent place from that which had 

 been pouited out to us ; and before we were 

 apprised of the change, an immense jam of au- 

 ditors made the Orator both inaccessible and in- 

 audible from any point we could reach. Just 

 enough could be seen to let us observe that he 

 appeared to be master of himself and his sub- 

 ject, and to deliver his sentiments with not a lit- 

 tle of that graceful and persuasive manner which 

 reminded one of an anecdote related of the cel- 

 ebrated \Vhitfield, " the Paul of his sect," who 

 was addressing a vast crowd of many thousand.s, 

 when an old w'oman vras seen on the confines 

 of tlie multitude, far beyond the Orator's voice, 

 to be in convulsions of admiration. A gentle- 

 man standing near, and lamenting the loss of 

 what was stirring to their foundations the sensi- 

 bilities of all around, said to her, " How is it, 

 good woman, that you are so deeply moved at 

 what you cannot hear ?" "Ah! sir, said she, 

 but can yow not see the godly wag nf his 

 head ?" In this case it was obvious that what 

 the Orator was saj-iug was greedily devoured 

 by his auditors; and those who could not hear, 

 like ourselves, departed with the next gi-eatest 

 pleasure — the expectation of reading the praises 

 of Agriculture, now becoming fashionable, from 

 so accomplished an amateur and one of good 

 blood ; for truly, if good predilections are here- 

 ditary, Mr. duixcY ought to wish well to and 

 take delight in it — as we remember about the 

 time he graduated, to have been most kindly ta- 

 ken by the arm, on being presented to his ven- 

 erable father, and at once marched through his 

 Vacciiie Institution, where at that time he had 

 many cow-boarders, at, we believe, $40 a year 

 for meat and lodging, with no view, that we 

 could discern, but to illustrate practically the 

 advantages and economy of his favorite soiling 

 system. Among these lactiferous personages 

 was the celebrated " Oaks Cow," of obscure, 

 unpretending American ancestry, but whose 

 prodigious contribution of 484 pounds of but- 

 er in eight months and a half, gave everlasting 

 celebrity in dairj' annals to the name of her 

 owner, Caleb Oaks, and her Ladyship. 



In the account of Premiums, made up from 

 the Albany Evening Journal, we have omitted 

 the amounts given in each case — the grade of 

 merit forming the true question. Moreover, we 

 confess that we could never be entirely recon- 

 ciled to the practice of giving money premiums, 

 instead of less sordid and more durable, even if 

 they should be less costly memorials — such as, 



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however small in money value, might yet be 

 displayed with acknowledged and laudable 

 pride in the old family cupboard or on the side 

 board or the mantle, or treasured away among 

 the household valuables as so many tangible 

 trophies of honorable ambition and success; tro 

 phies to be transmitted from generation to gen 

 eration as incentives to honorable emulation — 

 heir-looms, by which our posterity may swear 

 that their blood has not crept through drones, 

 insensible and unambitious of distinction in any 

 line of usefulness. In this feeling we should 

 like, we must confess, to enjoy the conscious 

 ness of association witli men who would value 

 an old tea-spoon bearing a mother's name, and 

 inscribed for best knitting or needle-work, more 

 than any amount of greasy lucre won for a fat 

 hog, and spent again on no one knows what. 



By the bye, taking but a cursory view of the 

 list of premiums, and doing homage to tlie good 

 intentions and judgment of those who arranged 

 the scale, some of them stiU sUike us as not ex 

 actly just or expedient For instance, much as 

 we suppose was owing to the management of 

 the Housewife, in gaiiing premiums for the 

 products of the Daii-y, the Garden, and various 

 branches of Domestic Economy, only two or 

 three Ladies took some small premiums, and 

 only as many more were in any way noticed ! — 

 Would it not be well, seeing how much men 

 are disposed to monopolize all honors and em- 

 ployments, tliat in all cases where excel 

 lence is found in articles produced chiefly mider 

 the eye and management of the good housewife, 

 that the honor and the reward should be be 

 stowed accordingly ? For humanity's sake, so 

 ciety should be so organized, its industry so rC; 

 ulated, and its opinion so shaped, as tliat it should 

 be deemed disreputable for any 7nan to exer 

 cise emplojTiients to which a woman's strength 

 is adequate, and which, in the view of a soundly 

 constituted public judgment, she could perform 

 with propriety. But on this subject we dare 

 not tru.st ourselves. 



Again : As to the scale of premiums, (and we 

 desire not to be understood as applying our re- 

 marks to this occasion in particular, but only to 

 take advantage of it for a general purpose,) is 

 there any thing, let us ask, connected with the 

 life and management of American Farmers, in 

 which they expose themselves to more just cen- 

 sure, than in their neglect to provide for their 

 table and family enjoyment the various fruits 

 in their seasoti which are known to be as con 

 ducive to health as they are congenial to our cli- 

 mate ? Would anything better indicate that 

 reform in our national taste so much to be cov- 

 eted by all who have regard for national well 

 being, and even character, as the substitution of 

 various fruit's and vegetables, for the great joints 

 of fat meat tliat load even to surfeit the tables 



