Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-03
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Toe Agricultural Interest.

The present is Year of Jubilee TO the farmer.
The rare and fortunate coincidence Of abundant
crops and high prices has fallen to his lot Men OF
other caIlings have had their seasons of prosper
ity. The miner, the merchant, the manufactur-
err and the Spectator have reaped in other days
their harvests Of gold. have reared their princely
mansions and clothed themselves with purple. In
the progress of events, and under the of Pro
whence, the tller of the sell is bes.. The farmer
now gathers the fruits of long years of toll made
quately requited Neither earth has filed his
horn with plenty. The great staples of the ooun-
try, without exception. have yielded rich har-
vest, and the OLD world with its teeming millions
opens marketfor the surplus products Of tho
land The farmer is prosperous and happy. His
bronzed and ruddy face puts on an unwonted
smile. He rubs his plethoric abdomen. arrays
himself in blue coat and white crayn, and
goes with stall-fed oxen, and glossy roadsters,
with sheep and swine, TO make his proud oya-
ton at some annual festival in honor of agricul-
ture. Such a scene is now presented at our
own capital and such have been are TO be in
every State, and almost every district, of our
great and prosperous country. Among the most
notable Of these for the crowds in attendancethe
quantity and quality of subjects exhibited, and
the distinguished men who participated in it, was
the u. S. Agricultural Exhibition last week in
Boston. We refer to il for the purpose of max
ing extracts from the speeches of two eminent
gentlemen delivered nj the banquet" which
give expression to sentiments appropriate TO the
times, and harmonizng with the experience and
feelings of our farmer friends.
Extract from Speech Of Hon Robt. c. Uinthrop.
The Agriculture of the United States. How
much is included in the full Specification md i'm
port of that phrase What gigantic harvests.
What an army of husbaadmen! What host of
housewives and hanamaidsl What multitude
swarms of animals What mountainous
heaps of corn and cotton What myrads Of i'm
plements, What measurcess breadth of a
ores
1t is not often that nero arthmetcal figures
produce any impression or sensation of sublimi-
~. But what can be grander than some of the
items in the statistical tables which set forth the
agricultural agencies, capacities and crops of tho
United States.
Why. sir, two years ago there were estimated
to be within our limits more than senty millions
Of horned cattle. than twenty millions Of
sheep, snd more than thirty millions of swine
BY the same returns, there were said to have
been raised in single year, one hundred and six
million bushels of wheat, one hundred and sixty
million bushels Of oats, sixteen hundred million
pounds of cotton, fifteen million tons of hay, and
six hundred million bushels of Indian corn Fol
low the order of the day, sir, and make fusion
of all these, and what picture of exnberant fer
tility do they present
But these figures are many OF them far below
the estimates of the present season. hive some
where seen our wheat crop for $3.50 set down at
not less than one hundred and sevent, five mil
lions and our maize or Indian corn at from eight
hundred to one thousand million Of bushels
What mighty aggregates are these, and how do
they speak to us of the growing greatness and
Importance of American agriculture, not to our
selves only, but to the whole family of man
How distinctly do they point out to our des-
tined part in the great economy of human exis-
tence. how emphaticaly do they proclaim our
mission to pour out the rich gifts of orr cxuber-
ant soil over every land,
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