ADDEESS. 



Mr. President and Members of the Essex Agricultural So- 

 ciety: — 



Our Board of Trustees having invited me to address you 

 to-day, I have chosen subjects which relate to what I deem of 

 vakie to ourselves as farmers, and to the welfare of this 

 Society, which has served us faithfully for many years, and 

 have realized fully the honor that is conferred upon me, in be- 

 ing allowed to address a representative body from all parts of 

 the county, owners of the foundation land upon which all other 

 industries must rest and depend. While this is the sixtieth 

 annual address, our present show is the sixty-second. Previous 

 shows have been held at the following places, as nearly as I 

 can ascertain : — 



Ten times at Danvers, seven at Lawrence, six each, at 

 Lynn, Topsfield, and Haverhill, five at Georgetown, four each, 

 at Gloucester and Newburyport, three each at Andover, Ipswich 

 and Salem, two at South Danvers (now Peabody), one at 

 Newbury, and as to two, I am in doubt. 



LABOR. 



There is one point that 1 would briefly refer to and of which 

 we must ever be mindful, namely: — that an all important part 

 of the basis of farming is honorable and healthful labor, and 

 unless the farmer, or his foreman, is capable of doing any and 

 all such work that may be required in the conduct of his farm- 



