Sharpless, recommending its objects, and inviting investi-
gation and contribution of the results of experiment and
experience ; which states that " it is within the memory
of many of us that this county was very poor, but thanks
to the worthy founders of our present farming system,
our own industry and. a beneficent Providence, it' has
arisen to a degree of prosperity and excellence seldoa
witnessed in so short a period of time. Most of you
know how this has been accomplished. It has been
effected by a judicious rotation of crops, by clover and
gypsum." To encourage the diifident and unpractised
with the pen, the address proceeds, — " It would not be
expected that all communications, to be beneficial, should
be grammatically correct, or in smoothly rounded periods;



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practical observations and facts, tending in any degree to
illustrate the subject, will find as ready acceptance dressed
in the plainest language of simplicity, as the more polished
sentences of the philosopher or scholar." A further ad-
dress, from the pen of another member, William H.
