14 MR. newhall's address. 



transmitted to the young stock, does not retain the identity of its 

 nature and species, how could it produce the same fruit of the parent 

 tree ? 



Mr. President, if the doctrine be true that by budding or ingraft- 

 ing from older to younger trees, any species of fruit may be perpetu- 

 ated through all time, then the fatal apple that grew in the garden of 

 Eden, by the same process might have been transmitted to us, and 

 our wives might have been plucking the fruit, and giving it to their 

 husbands. 



But it cannot be so. We might as Avell undertake to renew the 

 age of an old cow by turning her into a new pasture, as the age of 

 any species of frmt by ingrafting from old to young trees. It is true 

 that if the cow was better fed her hair might look more sleek and 

 glossy, but it would not diminish a wrinkle upon her horns. 



There is no branch of farming or orcharding where greater im- 

 provement has been made than in garden fruits and vegetables. 

 Where a quarter of a century since, in passing over the county we 

 might see occasionally a solitary pear tree in the front yard, and a 

 peach tree at the back door^ we now see beautiful gardens of deli- 

 cious fruit, ornamented with a great variety of flowers ; — one flower 

 only being absent, and that the most precious and delightful in crea- 

 tion — lovely woman ; for our ladies seem to have forgotten or to dis- 

 regard the fact that in the first garden ever planted on earth, the 

 woman was placed with the man " to dress and to keep it." 



The scarcity of good pasturing in our county renders it unprofita- 

 ble for the raising of stock. It may, however, be for the interest 

 of farmers generally to raise enough for their own use, as by select- 

 ing their best calves, the stock may be improved ; and it requires 

 about as much care and labor to wont and acclimate, stock bought 

 from the droves, as to rear them. Our milch cows have been very 

 much improved by crossing with imported breeds, and we have some 

 of the native breeds that are very superior. 



The exhibition of swine to-day^ an animal inferior to none in our 

 country for food, and almost the only one that a poor man can afford 

 to keep, its rapid growth and early maturity soon refunding the out- 

 lay of raising, shows us what may and what has been done by select- 

 ing and crossing the best of different breeds. They seem to have 

 exchanged their long snouts and crooked S})ines for broad backs and 

 deep side^. 



