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AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND. RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry. — Liebig. 



Vol. X.— No. 7.] 



2ntl mo. (February) IGth, 1816. 



[Whole No. 133. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A H T A T U M, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 5 North Fourth Street, 



PKILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see last page 



Address, 



Delivered at the Annual Exhihilion of the 

 N. Y. Stale Agricidtural Society, at 

 Utica, September 18th, 1845. 



By Hon. Josiah Q,otncy, Jr., of Massaclnisetts. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of the 



New York State Agricultural Society: 



If there were any spot that would of itself 

 inspire a man with eloquence on the subject 

 of agriculture, it is the one we now occupy. 

 We stand in the centre of the agricultural 

 district of the great state of the Union. In 

 full view the lovely valley of the Mohawk, 

 famous in history and celebrated in song, 

 stretches away to the distance. Before us, 

 by thousands and tens of thousands, stand 

 the men who have felled its forests and 

 caused it to blossom like the rose. Around 

 us are the proofs of the skill and intelligence 

 that have characterized their labours. Be- 

 neath us is the soil from whose maternal 

 bosom we draw our subsistence. Above us 

 Cab.— Vol. X.— No. 7. 



iis the canopy of Heaven that stretches equal- 

 [ly over all. 



We stand in the great temple dedicated 

 :to agriculture — a temple, at the raising of 

 .whose columns the "morning stars sang to- 

 jgether, and all the sons of God shouted for 

 ijoy" — a temple, not made with hands, eter- 

 nal as the Heavens. 



But, alas! Mr. President, the age of inspi- 

 ration is passed, and I never felt a stronger 

 desire to ask the kind consideration of an 

 audience, than when, under rather unusual 

 circumstances, I now rise to address you. 

 The e.xhibitions of agricultural skill and ag- 

 ricultural success, which we have witnessed 

 on this occasion, have impressed the truth 

 most deeply upon my mind, that it was hardly 

 worth while for the New York State Agri- 

 cultural Society to send all the way to Bos- 

 ton, to get me to instruct the New York farm- 

 ers in the management of their farms. If I 

 had indulged any hopes that the agricultural 

 knowledge conveyed in this address would 

 cause two blades of grass to grow where but 

 one grew before, those hopes are dissipated. 

 And to prevent any disappointment, I would 

 assure the audience, that as to flocks and 

 dairies, the raising of cattle and the cultiva- 

 tion of corn, they must go on in the old fa- 

 shioned way, for anything I have to say to 

 the contrary. But there are other subjects 

 of interest connected with agriculture, and 

 no one can look around upon this assembly 

 without feeling that the farmer is of more 

 importance than his farm ; and the results of 



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