to us, or others, may be best protected against the enemy, 

 hunger, bad sanitation, sickness, etc., especiall}- when de- 

 feuding or guarding the Nation. 



The training and intelligence of both officers and men 

 must be of the highest possible order ; and in the proper 

 degree to each and all. 



Up to the time of the breaking out of the last war, the 

 law of 1792 governing the military of this country was 

 still in force. Congress had been many times appealed to 

 to remodel and improve that law, without effect. It is to 

 Congress that we must still look, in the hope that they 

 may see that we now demand those improvements that 

 shall in future make for our army, and the men coming 

 from our homes to compose it, as good a plan of organiza- 

 tion as the best trained and practiced minds of our Na- 

 tion, or the world can produce. 



To come to matters that are of more direct application 

 to the tilling of the good, or more difficult, soils of Essex 

 County, — may it be for many more years a charge upon 

 our Society to continue to promote improvements that 

 shall directly advance our farming and horticulture. Let 

 us endeavor to take advantage as best we can of the in- 

 ventions of the day as they come forward ; and let us ven- 

 ture to advance suggestions that mat/ be used to aid in 

 this work, that the practical farmer may have them to 

 consider. 



How can the land of Essex County be made to yield 

 more revenue to those who have it in charge ? The ex- 

 pert speakers at our Institutes are the men to lead and ad- 

 vise us. 



Our Society's earliest work was to provide markets at 

 which the products of the farm and garden should find a 

 better and readier sale ; and the producer and consumer be 

 brought nearer together. 



We have always endeavored to bring before our cultiva- 



