ADDRESS. 



Mb. President and Gentlemen of the Essex County 

 Agricultural Society: — 



There were considerations, which made the invitation of 

 the representatives of your Society to address you on this 

 occasion, peculiarly pleasant. I ought, perhaps, to have 

 declined it. It is not possible, that it could have been in 

 the mind of any one, that I should speak upon your chosen 

 pursuit. Education, habits of life, course of study and gen- 

 eral pursuits, each alike forbids me to attempt such task, and 

 is conclusive, also, that you ask some other theme. 



I could, indeed, congratulate you, generally, upon the 

 success of the season ; upon the fruits, that have rewarded 

 your toils ; upon the richness of the earlier and the abundant 

 promise of the later harvests ; or, I might bring in review the 

 marvellous changes which the present generation has wit- 

 nessed in the culture of the ground ; the introduction, use 

 and improvement of new implements and machinery ; the 

 almost total uprooting of all received notions of practical 

 husbandry ; the wonderful increase in vaiiety, quality and 

 value of crops ; the attention to stock and its relation to the 

 farm, with an almost infinity of other things, interesting to 



