Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-10-07
agricultural.
EXTRACTS PROM THE
ADDRESS OF REV. WM II. LORD
AT ruE
MAD RIVER VALLEY AGRICULTURAL sOCI-
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Al U'aitfeid, September %, 1859.
We stand here, to-day, surrounded by
countless evidences that the year has waxed
old. and has come into those months which
have been well termed "the embers Of the ex-
piring year, and we also have the proofs that
labor has an agreeable end in the results it
gains The corporations and gratuties and
gifts Of Heaven for our tolls, scattered abun-
dainty all around as. are an ample satisfaction
and delight. Now has come the time. as the
fall winds are stripping the face of nature Of
its summer beauties, for the use and enjoy
ment of the results of Iabor-the time for
exhibiting and storing, and then using the
products Of our industry. And it is very
appropriate 70 have a day or two Of iestivity
and social pleasure, on occasion Of our annual
harvest, and to connect them with industrial
exhibitions, at which the country round about
shall be present, with its best productions Of
nature, art. skill. or mechanics. IL is well
for the producing classcs TO know what they
have done, how they have done their work,
what results have blessed their labors, and
what experience and wisdom they have gained
10 is in milking up and comparing such ac-
counts that each member of the industrial
classes gets the advantage of the combined
experience Of the whole. And ! consider it
one of the greatest practical benefits of these
Agricultural Fairs that they first accumulate
and then distribute knowledge knowledge Of
the best modes of agriculture, of the best
fruits and seeds of the best stock and inven-
tions, Of the best work and the best mechan-
ics Industrial exhibitions have therefore
kept pace with and been the exponent of civ
ilization, or Of the arts, the attainments, the
skill and forces Of civilized life
We sustain these industrial exhibitions,
/ then-and VIC only wish they could be on
far more extensive scale, both to time and
as to variety, showing the results of produc-
tive labor, in all its branches Of toll, Of in
yeution, Of art, Of skill. Of science Of me-
ohanics, of poetry, Of learning we sustain
them because their natural tendency is to
stimulate the ambition of the producers, and
to lessen the number Of the unproductve clas-
ses-to increase the coriors and thinkers, and
to diminish the number of poor workers and
poor thinkers, and idlcrs and dronc, in society.
Nor would it be without direct advantage,
10 thi. particular, 20 extend these exhibitions
so as 20 include all the best specimens of hui
man products Whatever the toll Of man
can bring from the willing earth, whatever
tbo skill Of tn,u can contriye TO facilitate toll
,b,tc,or ,,o oo,ips Of man cam discover of
r,nr b,,,,y or,.ofnlrcss or of ornament
rb,,ovcr i.,yn;n, or cioonooco can brin, of
,t,.. ..,ro. ~, IT,, ~. ins,iro tbo assc,,-
bloro. should al he gathered, and the exbi-
bi,io, sb,,ld no,or dc,.perate into ,noro
snow in on, da,,rtpont or scene for com
ncti,ion and bartcr.
II very obvious that such an exhibition
goulJ noterially ;ncrcasc tho stock of ;ndi-
vidunI knovlcdyo in respeet 10 tho hest pro-
ducts the hest modes of PRODUCING and
would secure General social harmony he
tween the varions classes of producers. an
interchange Of ideas that wonld promote both
general intelligence and charity. and allay the