ADDEESS 



Daring the Twentieth Annual Fair. 



HT WII-LIAM WALLACE, ESQ., OF KEW-TORK. 



I offer the Map of the United States as an appropriate introduc 

 tion to the remarks that I shall make on the establishment of an 

 Agricultural School and Experimental Farm. I ask you to look at 

 the South, with her vast cotton and tobacco fields; at the North and 

 East, with their immense timber, and immeasurable capacity for 

 raising grain; at the West, with her power of producing animal 

 life; at the middle states, with their inexhaustible beds of coal; at 

 the whole country, with its nine thousand miles of coast; its great 

 rivers and inland seas; its turnpikes, canals and railroads; its broad 

 valleys, towering mountains, and varied climate; its twenty millions 

 of population, and the increasing immigration. Then scan the great 

 mechanical invention of that population; see how that invention can 

 be applied to the implements of husbandry; and last of all, remem- 

 ber that whatever these millions produce is their own, and not the 

 plunder of a tyrant or an oligarchy. Their only monarch is their 

 God, and his tribute is praise and thanksgiving. 



Nature writes on this country — " The Granary of the World.*' 

 Two hundred millions of human beings can draw their sustenance 

 from the soil of the Union; and still that soil, under scientific cul- 

 tivation, could afford bread to a continent as large as Europe. 



A speaker, on an occasion like this, and in view of the vast agri- 

 cultural capacity of the United States, might well enter into an eu- 

 logium on agriculture; but I shall not utter it. I shall leave that 

 eulogium to abler orators. Let the beauty of agriculture be spoken 

 by the golden mouth of the harvest; let her healthfulness be cele- 

 brated by the athletic frames of those who minister before her eme- 

 rald altars; let her usefulness be recorded by the myriads whose 



