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llif iiexl legislaLufc will give the crowning grace to all lormcr 

 splendid acliievemeiits, and respond to the lond voice which 

 resounds from her remote borders, by lending its mighty aid 

 to a system of agricultural education. 



You arc assembled, gentlemen, on anotlier anniversary, with 

 no signs of abatement in the interest which has attended for- 

 mer occasions. On this beautiful autumnal day, at the close of 

 a favorable agricultural season, amidst the crowds which have 

 come from all quarters of old Essex, to exhibit their interest 

 in your objects and proceedings, surrounded with the noblest 

 specimens of industry and skill, you are prepared to render 

 thanks to Him who has given the earth its fertility, rewards 

 the labor of the husbandmen, and has declared that seed time 

 aad harvest sliall never fail. It is fit that amidst these scenes 

 of interest and congratulation, we should remember the dead. 

 You miss one* from your assembly and counsels, who has long 

 been a zealous and able coadjutor in your worthy object, and 

 has given his most earnest thoughts and devotion to secure its 

 highest prosperity. His wise and useful labors have been with- 

 drawn from the interest which he loved so well, and whose 

 magnitude he appreciated in its just light. You can show no 

 higher honor to the dead, than to promote with undiminished 

 zeal that most noble enterprise to which he consecrated so 

 much of his living energies. May all public and private du- 

 ties be performed with such pure motives, and faithful assidui- 

 ty, as to secure the gracious approbation of the Lord of the 

 harvest and the Judge of the world. 



*IIon. Asa T. Nkwhall. of Lynnfiekl, late a Vice President of tl)C 



Society. 



