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er, will prove extensively useful to the American citizen, beyond 

 their application to the production and sale of the fruits of his la- 

 bor. They will qualify him the more safely and intelligently to 

 discharge the duties of a freeman; and if called by his fellow- 

 citizens to do so, the more beneficially to serve his state and coun- 

 try in legislative and other public trusts. 



I hope I may offer another opinion in this connection, without 

 giving offence, or trespassing upon the properties of the place and 

 occasion. It is that this education in the just and true connection 

 between the agricultural, the commercial, and the manufacturing 

 interests of our country, equally and impartially disseminated 

 among the classes of citizens attached to each of these great 

 branches of labor, would effectually put an end to the jealousies 

 too frequently excited; demonstrating to every mind, so educated 

 that, so far from either being in any degree the natural antagonist 

 of the other, they are all parts of one great and naturally harmo- 

 nious system of human industry, of which a fair encouragement 

 to any part is a benefit to all; and that all invidious and partial 

 encouragement to any part at the expense of any other part, will 

 prove to be an injury to all. The education proposed will do all 

 that can be done to mark the true line between natural and health- 

 ful encouragement to either interest, and an undue attempt to ad- 

 vance any one, at the expense of the united system, merely pro- 

 ducing an unnatural and artificial relation and action, which can- 

 not fail to work disease and injury. 



The labors of this society, and of kindred associations, have 

 done much to inform the minds of our farmers in these collateral 

 branches of knowledge useful to them, and much remains to be 

 done. The science of production claims the first place, and is a 

 wide field, as yet so imperfectly cultivated as to afford a little time 

 for collateral labors. To secure a stable and healthful market, 

 and to learn how to retain and improve it, also opens an extensive 

 field for the mental labors and energies of the farmer. Between 

 these objects the relation is intimate and the dependence mutual. 

 The production makes the market, and the market sustains the 

 production. The prospect of a market stimulates to activity in 

 the field of production, and the fruits of that activity urge the 

 mind to make the prospect real. Success in both contributes to 

 the health and vigor and prosperity of agriculture, and of that 

 prosperity commerce and manufactures cannot fail largely to par- 

 take. 



All are willing to promote the cause of agriculture in our state 

 and country. Most are ready to lend an active cooperation, and 

 all are cheerful to see accomplished any valuable improvement in 

 this great branch of productive industry. The difficulty hitherto 

 has been in adopting any general plan to effect this desirable ob- 



