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REMARKS OF RICHARD BAGG, JR., ESQ., OF' WEST SPRINGFIELD. 



MR. PRESIDENT 



Sir, bred to the pursuits of agriculture, I am content to be reckoned 

 imong her people. 



We do not, perhaps, appreciate science as a help to agriculture. We 

 ire not familiar with the language of science. We are almost astounded 

 ly the name. We are, however, accustomed to labor y and note its results, 

 ind sometimes we venture to compare the present with the past, and in this 

 vay endeavor to determine our course and measure our progress. Have we 

 nade no progress ? Why, sir, the country that not " long ago " luxuri- 

 ited in her native wilderness, now glories in her matchless might, her un- 

 neasured power, her unequalled privileges, she counts her children by 

 nillions, and justly boasts that their habitations are the abodes of elegance 

 ,nd refinement. This is our country, we are her children. 



Sir, LABOR, GDIDKD BY INTELLIGENCE, has done this. The talismanic in- 

 luence of labor, guided by intelligence, is seen in every part of New Eng- 

 and, and this eulogium pertains to those who inhabit her hills and cultivate 

 er valleys as well as those who people her thousand villages and her more 

 oted marts of trade. Is this science ? 



Brethren of the Plough, Let us not deceive ourselves by supposing that 

 w have a separate interest. Let us not be seduced from " following the 

 ild paths," 



" The ways our fathers trod/' 



have literally " dropped fatness," and which are known to point in 

 tie right direction, for others of doubtful issue. Let us rather hasten on, 

 IGHT on, 



" As the eagles fly, 

 Right on to a glorious destiny." 



SPEECH OF THE HON. AMASA WALKER. 



IR. PRESIDENT 



Before we admit that confusion exists in relation to agriculture, and all 

 lis chaos which the learned gentleman from Amherst supposes, the ques- 

 on naturally arises, how happens it that, at this late period, there should 

 e so much chaos and confusion with reference to agriculture ? For I be- 

 eve that they do exist ; that there is all this chaos, confusion, uncertainty 

 nd the want of application of true science to agriculture. And why, sir? 

 have had occasion to notice recently some very good reasons why all this 

 hould be true ; and the general reason is this, sir. 



We have a great number of Agricultural Societies in different parts of 

 le Commonwealth. Those Societies carry on their operations through 

 le year. They have their exhibitions. They offer their premiums. 

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