SELECTIONS FROM ADDRESSES 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



THE FARMER MUST BE EDUCATEB. 



[Extracts from an Address delivered by General H. K. Oliver, at the Exhi- 

 bition of the Essex County Agricultural Society, held on the 30th day of 

 September last, at Laivrence.] 



But if the farmers have done so much, and done it so well, 

 the nation will confidently look to them to do still more. If 

 they have been 



"Great in the council, mighty in the field," 



the country will expect of them, and have a right to require of 

 them, still greater and mightier deeds. And to be equal to 

 this most just expectation and this most righteous requkement, 

 the farmer must be educated, — yes, educated. Not that he is 

 now, or has been, an uneducated man ; but He is not, and has 

 not been, educated enough. He must be educated still further, 

 — educated specially for the great work of his calling, that he 

 may be enabled to bring forth greater and better results, by the 

 application of a more enlarged mind, and a wider and more 

 liberal study in agricultural science ; that he may be enabled 

 to double his crops, without exhausting or impoverishing his 

 soil; nay, by actually enriching it, may secure the largest re- 

 turn for the money expended and the labor bestowed ; — and 

 educated collaterally, that he may, as a good citizen, mindful 



