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ADDRESS 



advance much larger (13 per cent.), proving that farm 

 property is enhancing among you, probably owing to an 

 increased revenue yielded by it, arising partly from 

 larger production and partly from larger prices,- at the 

 latter period than at the former. The surface under 

 tillage for the grains (wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats and 

 barley) was somewhat smaller even, in 1860 than in 

 1850 — a decrease, in the aggregate, of about three per 

 cent. It is presumable that this slight diminution is 

 due to the occupation of lands formerly in grain, for 

 the growth of the garden and orchard products demanded 

 by your cities, and of such other crops as tobacco, which 

 has grown to its present importance in your State, 

 almost entirely within ten, if not within five or six 

 years past. An increase in the hay crop, shows that 

 the surface mown has also been extended ; more hay 

 is probably sold in the cities now than ten years ago, 

 and the improvements of modern machinery — the best 

 mowers, and hay spreaders and hay rakes of the present 

 day, render this sometimes one of the least costly and 

 most profitable crops that can be grown on a large 

 scale, in the neighborhood of good markets. 



Nor can we proceed without remarking that to the 

 inventors and manufacturers of improved farm imple- 

 ments and machinery, as well as to the Agricultural 

 periodicals and exhibitions by which they have been 

 made known to the public, is to be ascribed much of 

 the progress our agriculture is making from year to 

 year, and no small share of the ability we have shown 

 to carry on a war and at the same time produce crops, 

 that are both of almost unprecedented magnitude. The 

 value of the implements and machinery employed upon 

 the farms of this State, is reported as twenty per 



