Excerpt from Address Before the N. Y. State Agricultural Society

Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen:

The scene before us is not only full of animation, but of interest to every one who has the happiness and progress of his race at heart. This great State - an empire in itself - is largely represented in its mechanical, and especially its agricultural interests. It is not merely an annual festival, it is a great school, where the results accomplished by the ablest and most practical minds in these departments are exhibited for instruction. You have assembled here from the farm, the shop, the counting-room and the office, from the valleys of the Susquehanna, the St. Lawrence and the Hudson and the shores of our beautiful lakes, to learn the progress which, as a State, we are making in those arts which are most essential to our support, our comfort and our civilization. The ancients had their Goddess of Agriculture. They reared altars and offered sacrifices and fruits to her in worship.

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