ADDRESS 



EY 

 JOSIAH NEWHALL, 



Mil. President and Gentlemen, 



The revolving!; seasons havinij; brouorht U3 to anotlier anmver- 

 sary of our Society, and to the ingathering of the fruits .of the earth, 

 and the faith of man reposed in the divine promise "that seed-time 

 and harvest shall not fail," having again been realized ; it becomes 

 us as intelligent but dependent beings, assembled in this temple do- 

 voted to the service of the Most High, to offer to Him the sincerest 

 gratitude of our hearts, for the numerous blessings of the passing 

 year. 



The wants of man's physical nature are constantly pressing upon 

 him. It is an imperative law of his being, that food be taken for 

 the sustenance of life. Hence it was that the progenitor of our 

 race was placed in a garden, and directed "to dress it and to keep it." 



The cultivation of the earth then, is the great temporal concern 

 of man; — connected with which, comes strength of body, peace of 

 mind, and the consciousness that we are treading a path marked out 

 by Infinite Wisdom. 



Although agriculture has been attended to with more or less suc- 

 cess from the primitive ages, still, it has not attained to that exact- 

 ness as a science, which an interest of such magnitude requires. 



In by-gone ages the minds of men have been diverted from this 

 natural and peaceful pursuit by wars waged by ambition and fanat- 

 acisra, and what was gained to the cause in one age may have been 

 lost in another. But the dawn of a brighter day has opened upon 

 us. As the light of knowledge beams upon the minds of men, what 

 before was considered fortuitous will be reduced to a certainty, and 

 we may permit ourselves to entertain the pleasing anticipation, that 

 the art of agriculture will be reduced to much exactness as a sci- 

 ence. This great pursuit lies at the foundation of all national pros- 



