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ligent directions about carrying on the farm, and be able to 

 cultivate the garden, and raise fruits and Howers. But the 

 good time is coming, and we shall soon see them runnino- a 

 strong strife a\ ith their brethren in the schools and colleges for 

 a thorouo'h ao-ricultural education. 



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My friends I have liad a 2)leasant time witli you, and some- 

 thing a great deal worse could befall me than again to meet at 

 yoiu' annual gathering and enjoy a feast of reason and flow of 

 soul akin to those vouchsafed liere to-day, and the h(»:-;i>!tality 

 of vour President and Secretarv. 



KEMAKKS OF CHAELES L. FLlX^r, ESQ. 



Mr. Pke.sidext, Ladies axd Gextle-aiex : 



It gives me pleasure to visit once more my natiA e eoiuity 

 of Essex, and to A\'itness a genuine, old-fashioned Cattle Show. 

 Your Society has been prosperous. The Exhibition to-day is 

 in tlie hiiihest deoree creditable to the officers, the members and 

 to the County, whose industry and enterprise it so truly repre- 

 sents. It is seldom that a simple ploughing uKitcli attracts so 

 large, so intelligent and so interested a crowd of spectators. 

 It shoAvs that a strictly agricultural show, designed to illustrate 

 and to encourage the farming industry of the County, and con., 

 ducted simplv and chiefly as a means of instruction, without 

 the advantages of located grounds and tlie adventitious allure- 

 ments of a track, can still be made a success within this C^om- 

 mon wealth. 



The show in the hall of fruits and vegetables is equal, and, 

 in many respects, vastly superior to any that I have witnessed 

 at any county show this year, while the stock would do 

 credit to any society in the State. All departments of the 

 Fair seem to be complete, and to justify the policy which the 

 Society has so steadily pursued during tlie long course of its 

 history. 



It is true vou have to forego some of the ii:rcat and manifest 



