MR. NEWJIALL'S address. ^ 



is but too true ; but an examination into tlie mode by which the 

 business hitherto has generally been conducted will explain the reason. 

 Every man knows that to encourage the growth of an animal, he must 

 supply it with food, and to make it profitable ho must supply it liberal- 

 ly. Between the animal and vegetable kingdom there is a striking a- 

 nalogy ; although the difference between a sentient and a vegetable 

 being is great, still in relation to food and growth, hfe and death, there 

 is much similarity. Withhold food from either and death is the conse- 

 (^uence. A man might as well hope to rear his domestic animals 

 with food barely sufficient to keep them alive and expect them to be 

 profitable, as to attempt to grow rich harvests, -without supplying, 

 where needed, the necessary food for the growth of his plants. 



Farming may be so conducted as to be made profitable, or merely 

 to aiford a living, or to run out the farm. Taking the land as it av- 

 erages in the state, this depends more on the farmer than on the 

 soil. The man who makes no provision for the raising of his crops, 

 cannot reasonably expect any. Agriculture, like all other business, 

 to be made profitable must be conducted with some method as well 

 energy. What would be thought of the merchant, who should neg- 

 lect to load his ships, and let them lay deteriorating at his wharf, 

 or send them to sea half loaded or manned, and Avithout funds for a 

 return cargo ; or the manufacturer, who should run his machinery 

 without system or order, and let it stand still upon every trivial oc- 

 casion, while the pay of his operatives was going on ? Would not 

 such a course bring irretrievable ruin ? And can the result be 

 more favorable to the farmer, who, though possessing hundreds of 

 acres of land upon which he is annually paying taxes, and who 

 makes no ade(|uate provision for the cultivation or improvement of 

 which, with the exception of a few acres, and that cultivated in 

 such a manner as not to afford a compensating return for the labor 

 bestowed. Although the soil in some parts of the county is grav- 

 elly or sandy, still it may be made to produce rich harvests. The 

 farmers have within their reach ample resources to convert theii^ 

 lands to a state of great fertility. The farmers of no section of the 

 state are more highly favored in this respect. On the eastern bor- 

 der of the county, the broad Atlantic rolls in upon the beaches her 

 fertilizing materials in great abundance. Upon the rocks between 

 high and low water, grow weeds, containing the elements of vegeta- 

 ble nutrition in a high degree. At some seasons of the year, a cer- 



