Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-03
For the Republican.
To the Citizens Of Marshall Co

Itis important to you-vitally so-that You Or
ganzc and m,intain healthy, vigorous. systemat-
ic AGRrcuLruRsL SOCIETY; and if it cannot be done
without -alaricd agents. your interest requires that
agents should be hired and paid.
Your county cont iins about Il, 500 inhabitants,
Of whom there are 2,6)) entitled to vote. Your
county has more acres of good land in proportion
to the whole number of acres, than any other
iy in the State. You have abundance of timber
and plenty Of lumber-milIs to enable you improve
at little expense, and give you a market for your
timber. You have r R,ilroad outlet in every d.
rccon: living you the benefit of all markets, and
you enj,y as healthy location taking one year
with another any other people can boast Of All
you want now is to encourage and foster the means
in your possession, and you will become what you
all desire to bc-casy in circumstances, and graft
fed as to your ambition. Nothing on earth viii
so quickly accomplish this well organized and
actively supported Agricultural Society 1t, of all
societies. is the only that encourages all classes
and fosters euery energy. 1t is the only orSaniza-
ton that enables the harl hand Of labor to clasp
the velvet fingers of Art and Science as friends
AMI on equal terms.
If your county is known abroad as progressive
one; il your people known an energetic,
proud and intelligent pcople-one that is striving
to excel in improvements of all kinds--one that
produces fine crops of grain. vegetables, fruits and
hay, one that has model farms, and that takes and
reads the papers--one that has churches and schools
and their consequenccs-,o wit honest and intcIli-
gent communities, the result will be that capital
and talent will come here to sec You, to live with
you, to buy out those who wish to sell, and 20 offer
improvements ON those who do not. New shops,
factories and machinery will spring into life and
operation in your midst raw material and manufac-
tured will bc fitted for market, and cities will
send here for it. Your farm products sil be en-
gagged at your doors; your horses and cattle will be
sought for at paying prices, and you will become
an independent and happy people compared with
your present condition. vilt ait' - H,-f
To bring about all this, requires but little cxcr-
ton and less expense provided there is harmony of
action, unity Of effort, and sysfem in all you do-
You can nerer succeed without these three things,
and every effort made will be abortive. To illus
trate: auifftinisf" imfs
lhcre are over iJJuo people du interested IN such
Society, even to those possessing mere accom-
plishments. Now suppose that the whole $4,000
leave from eight to fifteen persons to get together
from time to time, to make all the arrangements
and do all the business, without any fixed plan, or
any sufficient ability7 The result is just the
Misrepresentation. irrcgularity, deficiency CT ar
rangemcnt andcnlicss fault-finding and dssatsfac-
ton on the part Of those who did nothing TO aid,
and final abortion as TO the whole thing. fet
Probably there Is adcfectivc classification ofar-
ticles--an irrcsularity of premiums, want of dis
crimination in the selection of committees; more
committee men refuse to act than accept, and when
too late to repair the evil. report is made. man
who knows nothing about horses put on the horse
committee. a woman, who never made pound Of
butter, Is made aulge Of it. while the butter maker
par ereslence) is sett judge stocking yarn nee
die work. ms.n who sells goods is set to judge
Durham Bull, and one who scarcely knows sand
barrens from black loan soil. or manure from a
barn yard from decomposed boncss is set to judging
a course of experimental applications Of Manurcs
man who always has his shirt buttoncd wrong,
andhis neck tic half inside his coIlar-who never