32 Agricultural Address. 
and partly from the transported debris of rocks from other regions' 
This is the grain-growing section of the country. The hill-towns 
are capped with a coarse shale or sandstone, nearly destitute of 
lime and magnesia, ingredients so essential to cereal grains. 
They form an excellent grazing region, nor do they always fail 
of fine crops of maize and wheat. If the soils from the various 
farms of this county were subjected to faithful chemical analysis, 
new views of their adaptation and capabilities would doubtless, 
in many instances, be formed. The chemistry as well as the ge- 
ology of agriculture in this county, will doubtless yet furnish facts 
to the farmer, which shall be of no small value in their practical 
use. The subject is merely alluded to here partially, to illustrate 
some objects of interest in scientific husbandr}', and also as a hint 
to the fact of the economical resources of the county: the gypsum^ 
the marls, the peat, the lime, the decomposable shales, calcareous, 
gypseous, pyritous, magnesian, w^hich the geology of our country 
would develope, and which may be employed at a reasonable ex- 
pense, not only to sustain the soil in its present state of fertility, 
but to increase considerably its productiveness. 
The great scientific movement now pervading society, and 
having . objective reference to agriculture, is directing all classes 
of mind to this first and chief of arts. It is not hazardous to pre- 
dict the day near at hand, when the farmer, mechanic, tradesman, 
physician, lawyer, clergyman, will alike aspire to at least some 
familiarity with the science of production in all its branches Al- 
ready intelligent minds of all the professions eagerly watch for 
the reports of the Commissioner of Patents, and for the latest dis- 
coveries of Liebig, the master chemist of the world. The labors 
of Sir Humphrey Davy, and Chaptal, and Bousingault, have not 
been in vain. They have started an impulse to this science, which 
the world shall yet feel, in an improved civilization. 
If our space permitted, we should have been pleased to have 
published the address entire. We doubt very much whether our 
selections will do justice to the author, inasmuch as the full ad- 
dress, must be read in order to get the scope, and drift of the 
matter designed. — Ed. 
