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your wont, you need have no anxiety about his being a 

 competitor in your market, for in this particular he will 

 seldom be a rival, for he will have but little that would be 

 classed as merchantable. Such is my acquaintance with 

 the fancy farmers whose designs are pleasure and not profit. 



Friends and Brother Farmers: Our duties to church, to , 

 society, to our children and to ourselves, are vast, almost 

 incomprehensible, and our wants are many ; yet again let 

 me repeat that the present generation of Essex County far- 

 mers are under obligations and stand indebted to those 

 honored men who conceived the worth of the benefits 

 which would accrue, not only to those who have been 

 actively instrumental in the management of conducting its 

 exhibitions, but to the multitudes which assemble on such 

 occasions to observe its moral workings, which have ever 

 characterized its enobling influences and spread far and 

 wide the reputation which this grand old society enjoys of 

 being what its name implies a cattle show and fair, con- 

 ducted on far different principles from many — aye most — 

 agricultural exhibitions of our State and Country, and by 

 its itinerating method of visiting diflerent sections of the 

 County has thereby kept aroused the interest in all sections 

 which is so manifest on our grounds to-day ; and the 

 mutual bonds of the most extreme sections are by this 

 course cemented with the more cential, and by uniting 

 with the local organizations and "Farmers' Clubs" (which 

 have been the outgrowth from this, its aged parent) has 

 thus been enabled to maintain its position as an envied 

 rival, redeeming all its pledges, and aiming to increase its 

 liberal list t)f premiums, and is yearly enlarging in every 

 new field of enterprise which is adjudged worthy, and 



