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I cannot dwell, or even enter upon the detail of plans for the future 
prosecution of our enterprise, so auspiciously begun. That should and 
must come from abler and fitter hands. More immediately from your own 
ranks, as farmers, can be called hundreds in our own county, who can do- 
this subject that substantial justice which neither time nor ability have 
allowed me to undertake. But if, in the infancy of this great project, I 
mav in the future be permitted to indulge in the pleasing reflection that 
I have, in any manner contributed to its success, I shall feel that I have 
not lived in vain—that the world, though perhaps in many respects the 
worse, is, at least in some, the better for my having lived in it. 
If from this beginning, the fathers and mothers, sons and daughters- 
of this community shall be encouraged to persevere in well doing, then 
the few hours which I have been permitted to devote to the imperfect ar¬ 
rangement of these few desultory and disjointed thoughts will not have 
been spent in vain. Some small portion of that large debt of gratitude 
due from one so unworthily indulged with so large a share of your kind¬ 
ness, liberality and preferment, will be paid in a manner most satisfactory 
and gratifying to myself. Let the unexpected success with which these 
our beginnings have been attended, serve as encouragements to stimulate 
us to yet greater efforts in well doing. 
With this days’ exhibition of industry, agricultural skill, and improve¬ 
ments, all must be greatly pleased. It is only a harbinger of that with, 
which the future is so richly laden. If our county is to preserve its 
present rank, “ as the first agricultural county in the State.” it will needs 
be at the expense of continued industry, enterprise and the acquisition 
and diffusion of useful knowledge, and its faithful application in the field, 
the farm-house, and the work-shop. A superabundance of all these 
elsewhere, will not, cannot, accomplish the object. The work is all our 
own. I know those I address too well to doubt its fulfillment. 
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• FOND DU LAC. 
The Fair of the Fond du Lac County Agricultural Society was held at 
the city of Fond du Lac, on the 27tli and 28th days of September, A. D. 
1853. There were two hundred and twenty three entries for exhibition, 
being a large increase over those of the preceding year. The exhibition 
was well attended notwithstanding the forbidding state of the weathef,. 
