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market on her own soil, constantly increasing and 

 craving all her rich and choice productions, may suc- 

 cessfully maintain her rightful superiority at home, 

 and by a gradual and certain extension and develop- 

 ment of her own inherent resources, preserve it in all 

 time to come. 



One of the principal instrumentalities of effecting 

 this great and most desirable change and improve- 

 ment in the condition of our husbandry, is the socie- 

 ty, whose organ I have the honor to be on the 

 present occasion. That this society has already 

 accomplished much good, no one can doubt, who is 

 conversant with the comparative condition of the 

 agriculture of the county now, and at the time of its 

 establishment, twenty two years ago. But it is 

 quite as apparent that our society is yet in the 

 infancy of its usefulness. It may be made to wield a 

 vastly greater influence than it has hitherto done, 

 by more diligence, zeal and activity on the part of 

 its members. In the first place, every farmer, not 

 now a member, and all other citizens, who feel an 

 interest in promoting its objects, should enrol their 

 nam^es among its friends and supporters. This is 

 common ground, on which we may all meet, and 

 cultivate that mutual confidence and respect, which 

 the division and animosities of party and political 

 strife, are too much adapted to interrupt and impair. 

 •We can here cherish a common brotherhood of 

 interest^ as w^ell as of mutual regard and esteem. 

 In this way the social and moral influence of our 

 society may, continue to be, as it now is, highly 

 salutary. Important as this consideration may be, 

 it was not this sort of influence, as a direct object, 

 to which I referred in the remark just made. This 

 is one of the incidental benefits of our organization. 



The direct and main object of our union, under the 

 form of a society, is to improve, and extend, as far 

 as may be, the agricultural resources and wealth of 

 the county. This object cannot be fully accom- 

 plished, until all its members, and especially the 



