1837.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



695 



Communicated for publication in the Farmers' Register. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCI- 

 ETY OF BUCKIIVGHAiM. 



At a regular annual meeting of the Bucking- 

 ham Agricuhural Socioly, held at Robert Shaw's, 

 E.-^q. on the 20th October, 18.36, the meeting was 

 called to order by Maj. Charles Yancey, the presi- 

 dent, and aCter the readinir of the proceedings of 

 the last meeting, the president delivered the ad- 

 dress in accordance with a resolution of the last 

 meeting. 



Ilesi)lved, That the president be requested to 

 fLirnish a copy for publication in the Farmers' Jie- 

 gister — also, that three hundred copies be publish- 

 ed li)r the use ot" tlie members. 



Resolved, That in future the exhibition of stock, 

 &c. be on the day after the annual meeting in 

 each year. 



The reports of the committees were received, 

 viz : ' 



On Farms. 



The first premium, to Col. Thomas M. Bondu- 

 rant. 



The second premium, to Dr. William P. Mose- 

 ley. 



The third premmm, to Maj. James M. Patte- 

 son. 



On Horses, ^c. 



The first premium, to Maj. Charles Yancey's 

 Gohanna colt, 4 years old. 



The secoml premium, to Maj. Charles Yancey's 

 brood mare, Jenny Dang. 



The third premium, to Maj. Charles Yancey's 

 Greybeard colt, over 2 and imder 4 years old. 



The Iburth premium, to Capt. William N. Pat- 

 teson's Washington colt, under 2 years old. 



The fifth premiimi, to Dr. William P. Mose- 

 ley's Janus colt, other than thorough bred, under 

 3 years old. 



The sixth premium, to Mr. Robert Moore, for 

 jack, John Blue, over three years old. 



Cattle, 4-c. 



The first premium, to Capt. Richard G. Morris, 

 for his Devon bull, Mitton. 



The second premium, to Rev. Jesse S. Armis- 

 tead, lor his Duriiara heifer, Kitty Hossack. 



The third premium, to Dr. William P. Mose- 

 ley, for his fat cow. 



Hogs, Sfc. 



The first premimn, to Col. Granderson Mose- 

 ley, tor the heaviest hog, live weight, under 1 

 year old. 



Domestics, Sfc. 



The first premium, to Col. Beverly A. Brown, 

 for his blue suit. 



The second premium, to Dr. William P. Mose- 

 ley, tor 20 yards carpeting. 



The third premium, to Dr. William P. Moseiey, 

 for the best counterpane. 



Election of Officers. 



William P. Moscley, elected President; George 

 M. Payne, J. S. Annislead, and Robert Moore, 

 Vice Presidents : Granderson Moseiey, Record- 

 ing Secretary ; William N. Palteson, Correspond- 

 ing Secretary; James JM. Patt.eson, Treasurer; 

 William C. Moseiey, Thomas M. Bondurant, 

 Richard G. Morris, William Lewis, Jesse Hole- 

 man, and Patrick H. Klcan, Directors, 



Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting 

 be furnished the editor o'i the Farmers' Register, 

 and that he be requested to publish the same. 



Resolved, That this meeting now adjourn till 

 the 3rd Thursday in October next. 



Charles Yancey, President, 



Gr. Moseley, Rec. Secretary. 



N. B. — The competition in cattle, hogs, sheep, 

 and domestics, would have been more numerous, 

 but for a misunderstanding as to the day of exhi- 

 bition. 



GRANDERSON MOSELEY. 



ADDRESS TO THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 OF BUCKINGHABI. 



Hy Charles Yancey, Esq. 



Gentlemen : — At our last annual meeting of 

 the Buckingham Agricultural Society, when I 

 was not present, you conltirred on trie the high 

 honor of electing me your president for the pre- 

 sent year : lor your kindness and partiality in con- 

 fiding to me this honorable station, I now tender 

 to you my unfeigned and grateful thanks. In 

 conipliance with a resolution of the board, requir- 

 ing me as your president, according to usage here- 

 tolore, to deliver an address to the society at its 

 present annual meeting, I now proceed to dis- 

 charge that duty with much diffidence, being fully 

 aware ofniy want of qualification to do justice to the 

 great and important sutijects of agriculture, horti- 

 culture, and other subjects that I deem proper to 

 include in this address. Agricultural husbandry, 

 from the earliest ages to the present day, has ever 

 been deemed, and wisely considered, as the nur- 

 sing mother of the arts ; and the basis of the com- 

 forts, prosperity, and the support of the whole hu- 

 man family. When our first parents offended 

 against the first divine law of the Almighty, a 

 curse was laid upon the earth for their transgres- 

 sion. That is, it was doomed to grow thorns and 

 thistles, which I understand to be the type of the 

 long list of every noxious plant that now inlest the 

 earth; consequently it was decreed, that Adam 

 and all his descendants should "eat bread in the 

 sweat of their laces" — that is to say, should pro- 

 cure the bread of lite by labor, for the purpose 

 that labor should be indispensable, to render the 

 earth capable " of bringing forth its increase." It 

 is then a divine command to labor : and I assert 

 with confidence, that no manner of labor is more 

 honorable, more independent, more certain of re- 

 ward, more virtuous, peacei'ul and happy, than 

 ihe cultivation of our mother earth. 



How gratifying, how consoling, the reflections 

 of those who sow and who plant, that are permit- 

 ted by the dispensations of" Providence, together 

 with their own labor and toil, to harvest a bounti- 

 ful increase of crops to the ample supply of their 



