The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-10-03
Committee of


"A member OF the Society begS leave to
add few suggestions, for the consideration
of such as feel an interest in the welfare of
the institution. 1t is believed that the So
ciety has not received all the support from
the agricultural part of the county, which
the interesting nature of its objects would
authorize as to expect. 1t is true that ma
nv intelligent and highly respectable gen.
ticmen engaged in agriculture, have inter-
ested themselves i'll tho Society, and have
taken an active part in managing its con-
Germs; we are, however, compelled to ex-
press regret, that by far the greater pro-
portion of our farmers have withheld both
Pecuniary aid, and personal exertion, from
an enterprise which it is hoped will finally
result in essentially elevating the agricul-
tural character of the county. The writer
is persuaded that the neglect of our citizens
in this particular ought not to be attributed
to Indifference to the cause of Improvement
in agriculture ; but partly to tho fact of not
being sufficiently apprised of the facilities
which the efforts of the Society will fur
nish in accomplishing the object and part
ly to the indulgence of belief in many,
that their individual support is not of much
consequence, and that the Society without
their personal aid will succeed in attaining
all the ends desired by its more active
friends. 1t is important, however, that
every impression of this kind should be re-
PEELED, and that our farmers should univer-
sally come forward and unite with those
engaged in other pursuits, in this nnderta-
king; and thus place the Society, in point
of pecuniary resources, and efficient exer-
ton, on elevated ground. There is no
county that is more deeply interested in
this species Improvement than this; there
is none where Che farmers are more intel
ligent where agricultural information can
be diffused with more facility or where
the expanded principles introduced by mod
ern science, would produce happier ef7
feet, in clothing our variegated hills with
the rich rewards of intelligent industry and
liberal minded enterprise. Other coun-
ties in the state can rely in part upon man.
ufacturing or commercial sources of wealth;
but this is dependent almost entirely upon
agriculture, from which not merely the
subsistence of an ample population is to be
derived; but those means procured in adj
dition, which are necessary to surround The
fire-side with sons and daughters. possess
sing cultivated minds and improved man
ners, and the enjoyment of such indulgen-
ces as parental affection extends, and mod
ern refinement requires. 1t is hoped there
fore, that those Immediately interested
will turn their attention to this subject, and
make this (what it is intended to hey en-
phatically the farmers institution, and its
anniversary the farmers festival, collecting
every year from all parts of the county,
The bone and sinesp Of society, and exhibit
ing the trophies Of the svord after It has
assumed the form Of the plough share, and
the spear after 1t has taken that Of the
pruning hook. In expressing wish that
there may be alarge accession to our num-
bers, the writer does not intend to create
the impression.that the present condition.
of the Society is unpromising, for such is
far from being the fact; it has during the
the past year in some respects improved;
its financial embarrassments have been in
q great measure retrieved and the farmer
may hereafter expect toreceive with pune =
tuality, the just rewards of an memorable
competition. rs A