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vision, was disclosed to the poet, as a millenial condition of 

 society, when 



" All crime shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; 

 Returning justice lift aloft her scale ; 

 Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend ; 

 And white-robed innocence from heaven descend." 



God speed the day ! And man welcome it as a new lieaven 

 and a new earth ! 



The Advantages of Science in its Application to Agri- 

 culture. 



[Extract from an Address delivered at the last Fair of the Havipden County 

 JIgricuUural Society, ir/ John P. Norton, Professor of Jlgricultural Chemis- 

 try, Yale College.] 



There are probably few of those here present, who would be 

 willing to assert that the agricultnre of this county is just what 

 it should be. I venture to say that if I were now to go about 

 among this audience,.aud ask each one of you who is engaged 

 in farming, if he considered this district cultivated in the best 

 possible manner, there are few, if any, who could conscien- 

 tiously answer in the affirmative. Here would be pointed out 

 one wrong proceeding, there another, and I should be directed, 

 if the inquiry were pushed still farther, to farms that are con- 

 stantly running down, and perhaps to some fields that are so 

 exhausted as to be scarcely worthy of cultivation. I should 

 find too a great variety in the product of what is usually con- 

 sidered well cultivated land ; even in the same township, where 

 the original character of the soil was the same, we find farms 

 whose productiveness is entirely different ; one bears as good 

 and perhaps better crops now than it ever did, while the other 

 grows worse and worse every year. Is it not worth your 

 while to ascertain the cause of these differences? Why is it 

 that one of these fields, or farms, bears so much more than the 

 other, and still seems susceptible of farther improvement ? 

 When will it reach the limit of improvement ? When will it 

 produce the heaviest crop that it is capable under any circum- 



