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prise and improvement in all the departments of in- 

 dustry, AYith her streamers and stripes floating upon 

 every ocean, sea, lake and navigable river in the civil- 

 ized world, would return to their moorings, and old 

 ocean would mourn that her bosom no longer floated 

 the products of the earth. Our institutions of learn- 

 ing would feel the withdrawing hand that supports 

 them all. The student would re'urn to his desolate 

 home ; the professional man to his office ; the merchant 

 to his store, and would exclaim, " The earth has failed to 

 produce and the fountain that sustained us all has 

 dried up." 



llow truly then, is Agriculture the mother of all 

 tuts, the foundation and basis from which springs every 

 other profession — the rock from whence flows a stream 

 that waters every department of civilized life. How 

 important appears this interest, when we look out up jn 

 the world and see the great interests of sjciety, swelling 

 in magnitude, increasing and progressing in every im- 

 provement, which learning, the arts and sciences, elevate 

 and adorn, and make man prosperous and happy — 

 with all their vitality centering in the tillers of the soil. 

 Thus you see the important position you occupy. — 

 Shall you not make it nonorable ? 



The mechanics and manufacturers are intimately 

 connected with the agriculturist. While the mechanic 

 invents and builds implements and machinery, the manu- 

 facturer works the fabric the farmer produces, into 

 cloth and various other articles. Great has been the 

 revolution in agricultural implements within the last 

 thirty years. Inventive genius has been waked up, and 

 it seems as though master spirits had been vying with 



