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ered with pens, &c. ; each pen is supplied with the Croton water, and 

 ample commodious stables. This location will at all times be within 

 omnibus reach. 



For the Ploughing and Spading matches, the pleasant village of 

 White Plains has been selected. These matches will be conducted 

 in conjunction with the Society of Agriculture and Horticulture of 

 Westchester County. 



The motives for greater exertions at this anniversary, are presented 

 from the effects produced by the revolutionary spirit which convulses 

 Europe. Labor is suspended, production lessened and competition 

 diminished, while the people are engaged in organizing governments. 

 The waste of armies will increase the demands for our productions. 

 Revolution may follow revolution for years. This unsettled condi- 

 tion of things will bring emigrants with capital and skill to our coun- 

 try, who will be employed in extending improvements, augmenting 

 production, and making this the great granary and storehouse of a 

 large portion of Christendom. An occasion is afforded when asso- 

 ciations like this can do much towards pushing on improvements, and 

 multiplying the means of successful competition and national wealth. 

 In connection with our beautiful uplands and rich alluvials, our wa- 

 terfalls, our exhaustless coal, iron, and varied minerals, with cheap 

 steam power ; the variety and abundance of materials for sustenance 

 and fabrication ; the facilities for intercourse and transportation on 

 our extended sea-coast and inland seas, rivers, canals, and railroads, 

 with the concentrated enterprise, skill and invention of the old and 

 new world, vigorously exerted under a firmly settled government of 

 equal rights, are presented prospects surpassing those enjoyed by 

 any other land on which the sun ever shone. 



Hitherto, at periods far less propitious, invitations in the name oi 

 the American Institute have never failed to produce a rally among the 

 great industrial classes. On the shortest notice they have come loaded 

 with contributions that have filled our saloons, and crowded our av- 

 enues to overflowing. The spirit of improvement, incited by com- 

 petition, has been moved over more than one half of the Union, as 

 former exhibitions have shown. Farms, gardens, factoiies, and work- 

 shops, far and near, have furnished their choicest productions of na- 

 ture and art, to complete the variety, beauty and splendor of our an- 



