ADDRESS 



:6Y HON DANIEL SAUNDERS, Jk., OF LAWRENCli. 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen of The Essex Agricultu-^ 

 RAL Society: — 



In accepting tlie invitation with which I was honored 

 by your Board of Trustees, to address you upon the present 

 assemblage of your Association, I was not unmindful of the 

 fact that nearly every topic of interest to you, as farmers, 

 upon the subjects of husbandry in agriculture, horticulture^ 

 pomology, stock raising, farm management, and farm life gen- 

 erally, has been illustrated by the experience, the careful 

 thought, the cultivated scholarship, the brilliant genius^ and the 

 accomplished oratory indigenous to our county, — a county al- 

 though strong in natural developments, yet more fertile in 

 mind, and more prolific in mental culture and resource. Nor 

 was I unmindful of the fact, that I had no experience, as the 

 cultivator of broad fields, to present to you, as an example to 

 be followed or shunned ; no scientific researches into the chem- 

 istry of nature, by which to instruct you how to draw out the hid- , 

 den treasures contained in the full and flowing bosom of Mother 

 Earth ; no fancy theories with which to delight your imagina- 

 tions, or to allure your exertions to the questionable results of 

 mere ideal speculations ; no statistics with which to convince 



