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" on. He continually makes extensive experiments to improve the 

 " science of agriculture. He is stimulated only by the desire to benefit 

 " mankind. He keeps twenty-four ploughs going at all times of the 

 " year when it is possible for a plough to stir. He has sowed this spring 

 " six hundred bicshels of oats. He has seven hundred acres in wheat, 

 " and as much more for corn, barley, potatoes, peas, beans, &c. He 

 has five hundred acres of land down in grass. He will sow this 

 " summer one hundred and fifty acres of turnips. He has one hundred 

 " and forty horses, one hundred and twelve cows, two hundred and 

 " thirty-five working oxen, steers and heifers. He has five hundred 

 " sheep. He entertains much company. Last fall he killed one 

 " hundred and fifty hogs which weighed 18,560 pounds, all which was 

 '^for house use^ exclusive of the provisions for the negroesP 



Ladies and Gentlemen I The American Institute salutes you with 

 the most cordial feelings. May all blessings wait upon our people 

 whose arms are weilded for the victories of Agriculture, Commerce, 

 Manufactures, and the Arts. May our sieges of Castles be for many 

 generations like that of to-night, the smiling army of ladies and 

 gentlemen pressing to its arena, which once grimly frowned with the 

 heavy cannon on oar beautiful bay. I have seen furnaces prepared 

 to heat cannon balls red hot, in the places where those rich works of 

 peace now stand. 



Permit me to close with an invitation to you to stretch your vision 

 a few years to come, and behold the railroads from here to California, 

 making the journey there in one week and back in another. Our 

 telegraph saying on the 3d Oct. 1869 — the Steamer China has just 

 arrived from Canton in fifteen days, with a cargo of half a million of 

 iollars. The passengers will take the cars this evening, and be with 

 you in New- York, on the 10th or 11th inst. at furthest. See then a 

 thousand large steamers whose pipe smoke may be seen by day, and 

 their lantern lights by night, all over the mighty Pacific Ocean. See 

 the Island of Robinson Crusoe. See the Pelew Islands, peopled with 

 happy races of the highest civilization . See parties bound on a fishing 

 excursion from J^ew- York to Tinian. 



