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rience, the boundaries of knowledge will be enlarged, 

 and an actual progress will be made in the promotion 

 of this great and paramount interest of society. 



I am not calling on you, my friends, to become 

 authors, but witnesses. I would put you severally on 

 the stand to testify, from year to year, what you do 

 know, or have learned about your own business, and 

 let the judges, to be constituted by yourselves, put 

 abstracts of that testimony into a suitable form for 

 publication. In this way true knowledge may be 

 increased, and the lesser lights of individual expe- 

 rience may be combined in one great central light, 

 which shall shine on every hill top, and in every 

 valley of the county. I cannot press this subject too 

 earnestly on your attention. I believe this to be the 

 great sphere of our usefulness, as a society. Not 

 looking to premiums or gratuities, as the objects of 

 our labors, but to a greater recompense of reward, 

 the consciousness of having discharged our whole 

 duty, let us press forward, in the anxious endeavor 

 to extend the boundaries of a just and true agricul- 

 tural knowledge, to be applied in making our own 

 ancient and honored county the garden and orna- 

 ment of the state — rich in its various and useful 

 productions, and the home of a contented, moral, 

 intelligent and thrifty yeomanry. 



