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ripe." But, when the young — those who have just entered 

 upon life, whose career is still open before them — are called 

 to close the great account, and are borne to a higher life, 

 we are filled with sorrow for those who remain, and with 

 bewilderment that the promise can never be fulfilled, and 

 the work must forever go unfinished. We have enrolled 

 many venerable and honored names in the list of the de- 

 parted — and now we are called upon to pay a tribute to the 

 memory of those who had just entered upon their labors. 



Within a few months, Mr. Fred. St. Clair Herrick 

 has been summoned, after a long and trying illness, which 

 he bore with heroic fortitude and courage. He had been 

 identified during the few years of his maturity, with that 

 great industry which this Society represents. His mind 

 had been cultivated for his work. A graduate of our 

 Agricultural College, he commenced immediately on the 

 completion of his studies, to apply those principles which 

 he had carefully and studiously explored, to the manage- 

 ment of a farm, and to the cultivation of the soil. To this 

 work he brought intelligence, industry and zeal. His work 

 was well done. His heart was in his occupation. And he 

 led, while living, a life of usefulness and industrious appli- 

 cation and success in the calling he had chosen. While we 

 mourn with those who have lost a loved one from the family 

 circle, and sympathize with the bitter disappointment which 

 falls upon those who had prepared him for his career, we 

 feel deeply the loss which his death has brought upon our 

 calling, and the importance of impressing his memory and 

 example on the minds of the young men of this county. 



We have also lost Mr. R. C. Ware, a young man of great 

 promise, whose mind was devoted to agricultural investi- 

 gation, and whose tastes were fitted by inheritance and by 

 education and example in his own home, to the business of 

 farming. He was the son of our honored President. His 

 grandfather was one of tiie leading farmers of Essex 

 County, during a long and useful life. An opportunity for 



