ADDRESS ON AGRICULTURE. 



I pray you, would one of your Worcester farmers like to be caught in a fix like 

 this? 



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THE MODE OF PLOWING PROHIBITED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 162-1. 



With the swing plow of the present day, says an English writer, a pair of 

 stout horses can plow deeper, and turn over more ground in the same space 

 of time, than could have been done by a team of eight or ten oxen, with the 

 cumbrous wooden implement Avhich was almost exclusively employed here some 

 forty years ago. Prior to the present century, the plow was very clumsy and im 

 perfect, requiring six or ten horses, sometimes twelve oxen. 



No, my friends ! So far from Agriculture not being a liberal and improving 

 pursuit, its march has been pan passu with Liberty itself, as may be seen by a 

 comparison of the form of the implements and the state of the art in England 

 and the United States as contrasted with countries whose institutions are less free, 

 as in Spain, and Portugal, and Russia, and even in France, where the rude ploTW 

 described by Virgil is still in use ? An Englishman traveling recently for agricul- 

 tural observation in the North of Europe, says, that in adjacent fields he saw three 

 or four hundred women at the ploAV — white, not black women — without hat or 

 bonnet, or shoe or stocking. That the able-bodied men are almost all either ia 

 the army, or working as mechanics in town. 



Yes, gentlemen, we may be assured that what Ave now need, and that for 

 which I shall plead for the residue of my days, through the work under my 

 charge. The Farmers' Library and Monthly Journal of Agriculture, is,. 

 suitable instruction for the rising generation in all our schools, not merely in the 

 professional and military, but in all the arts and sciences connected with Agri- 

 culture and all our industrial, useful and peaceful pursuits. And how is this to 

 be done but by providing (as is done for our military) suitable institutions, ade- 

 quately provided and maintained, to prepare and send out through the country 

 accomplished, high-minded, because well paid and duly honored, instructors, 

 who would be qualified to take charge of agricultural schools in all the Slates? 

 To secure an equal amount of agricultural science for each State, according to 

 population, they might be appointed as the Cadets are at West Point, with this 

 difference, that when graduated they would be discharged without any pay frora 

 Grovernment, but with a diploma that would be the best sort of capital with 

 which to enter upon life — a certificate of capacity to create, not to destroy .' 

 When the glorious light that will thus be diff"used shall have been spread over 

 the country, then will your vocation be lifted in the public consideration to tlte 



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