ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen of the Berkshire Association 

 for the promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures., 

 and Fellow- Citizens — 



JL HE Society havins^ required an annual exhibition of 

 the fruits of t)>eir measures, that |>ericd has returned, and 

 we are again assembled to discharge the important duties 

 (attached to the occasion. This meeting has recurred un- 

 der far more auspicious circumstances than the last ; for 

 we behold an earnest of the promise, " that seed time 

 and harvest shall not cease" — that the labor of the hus- 

 bandman shall be blessed M'ith tlie plenteousness of the 

 fruits of the earth. The heart which was ready to faint, 

 has been cheered I)y the dawn of better times, 'i'he ani- 

 mating hope, that the general sufiejing haa reached its 

 prescribed limits, is realized — let our gratitude to Heav- 

 en equal the greatness of these dispensations — let our joy 

 be elevated to the gladdening scene. Nor have we less 

 cause of gratitude, that the exertions of the Society have 

 been prospered ; that their labors to promote tlie general 

 welfare have been so efiectually succeeded. These arc 

 considerations of delightful private satisfaction, and gen- 

 eral congratulation. 



At no period sii'ice the establisliment of the Society, 

 have GO many unfavorable occurrences in the peculiarity 

 of the times and seasons, liappened. At no period have 

 cfiorts been made, in equal degree and extent, to sustain 

 ill^e hopes and expectations of our fellow-citizens in the; 

 '.id vantages to be derived from the association. We have 

 ^scnrancfj ihat. ihcse f spectations have been realized, 



