ADDRESS. 



In addressing you on the present occasion gentlemen, I feel 

 desirous to confine myself in my remarks, to practical Agricul- 

 ture ; because it seems to me an address to an Association 

 instituted as is the Essex County Agricultural Society, for a 

 specific purpose, should have a direct bearing upon the object 

 aimed at in its organization. But from this course I am in some 

 measure deterred, by a consciousness of the want of a sufficiently 

 familiar acquaintance with the subject ; and therefore, feel 

 compelled to occupy some portion of your time wiih observa- 

 tions of a very general and somewhat desultory nature. Still as 

 Agriculture and Horticulture, though occupied with a different 

 class of objects, and pursuing their ends by different processes, 

 are so intimately blended, that they may fairly be considered as 

 different branches of the same science ; and since the former 

 has been with me an object of interest and enquiry, and the 

 latter both theoretically and practically, has received much of my 

 attention, I shall endeavor to impart to some portions of my 

 discourse, something of that practical character, that, did I feel 

 competent, I should wish to maintain throughout the whole. 



Life — organized life — seems to imply nourishment as a 



condition indispensable to its maintenance, as well as to its farther 



development ; in every stage of being, the first want to be 



supphed is that of food. To men, while living as detached 



individuals, or in groups of a limited extent, widely separated, as 

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