Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-01-25
srArE.AGsltrLrusAL SOCIETY.


! SrArE.AGalCrLruRAL SOCIETY. Ne
The annual meeting WAS held jan
usry lith, at Des Moines. The address
of the President, Hon. Peter Melendy,
is as follows: TllGGeHsa FL 81 tnuoa
GENTLENiEN.-- Section 5of an act for
the encouragement Of agriculture
makes it the duty OF tile Board of Ill
rcctors or the Iowa state Agricultural
! Society, together with the Presidents
! of County Societies Tin the Ststo.l OF
other delegates thefefrom duly author
iued in writing, TO meet at the Capital
| of the state, OH the second Wednesday
of January in each year, for the purpose
4 of fchoosinHofficcrs and Directors; to de-
eide upon the location of State Fairs I; to
award premiums on Essays and field
crops, and to consider all questions re-
| lating 10 tho development OF agricul-
ture in the State. a'&H j
! Gentlemen This IL the fourteenth
annual meeting OF the Society. The
\ present is an OCCASION OF much interest
\ TO the welfare Of the Society. Wemcct
here to-day under better auspices than
ever before. The thought that the Tn
ion, blessed mother OF us all, has been
saved, anu the starry banner again
floats proudly over our glorious land
"Jree,o "Jree.' May we all hail the
glad tidings that peace is triumphant.
The year just past has been one OF
plentiful hRrvest-a fruitful season
with tokens Of divine goodness lying
/ thickly around us, We should be
thankful for the prosperity which at
tends us, and for the increasing ineans
and facilities for our agricultural i'm
\ provement and wealth. .s..ftt.bts. ..
May we increase in our enterprise
activity, industry, progressiveness, and
Intelligence. May we press onward to
still higher attainments, and still high
1 er position in the advancement OF the
great interests of agriculture. 30"
As l said before, the rich and bounti.
l ful harvest which We have just passed
gives evidence that we are favored
8 people. The field of our labor il favor.
ed ia our locality, situated as we are
between the Mississippi on the east and
I the Missouri OH the west, whose waters
take their rise far TO the north and west
and flow to the Gulf of Mexico. On the
north are the forests OF pine, on the
south the inexhaustible stores Of min
cral wealth within our own borders
d the beautiful and fertile prairies' md
4 openings, aud everywhere limpid and
bounding streams, pure and healthfu'
airs. The sun, in his circuit, visits nC
4 spot on earth. Iovelicr, healthier, oi
) more fertile than our chosen state rf
| Tothe eye OF the stranger, Iowa seems
the chosen home of industry, health
prosperity and peace. Here it would
seem that agriculture, commerce, and
manufactures, might establish them
selves, with every element of nature
for their helper, and every interest oi
humanity for their stmulant and guide.
At our late State Fair, we had before
us The productions of the plow, ths
Y loom, the anvil, the splendid stock, the
beautiful fruit aud flowers, the great
sources of wealth ofour nation, and We
may well say in all truth, that young
AS we are in Iowa, in comparison with
our sister States, we have already given
good testimony Of our industry, enter
prise, and desire to improve all the ad'
vantagcs which our highly favored
land presents US. ! say favored land
Our soil IL rich and productive oul
climate pleasant and healthy the coun
try teening with mineral wealth; ou
: means of intercourse arc good I'VE hav'
reason to rejoice that we have choseI
Iowa as our home, the scene of our In
.bors, the fruitful source of our prosper
ity. '.t.
The riches of earth are distributed
with q lavish hand on our beaGtlfu
State; they merely require the careful
gathering, and the proper Use and i'm
provcment. to insure tile prosperous
condition of happy and contentcd
community. The State Agriculture
Society has now held its Thirteenth
Annual Fair OF the productions Of The
soil, the result of industrial laGor in tho
mechanic arts, and particularly in tht
breeds of all domestic animals. w.
may well bc proud of the fine display
we saw at the lac State Fair, of fimprov'
ed stock cattle, sheep, and swine. Mors
particularly may we boast OF the spcci
mems of that noble animal, the horse
and of our excellent plants, our fruits
and above all our cereal grains. Coulo
they be surpassed, in their excellen
qualities, in any part of our country
We think not. And these do not only
bear their own evidence of the value o
our soil. and the industry Of our produ
GERS, but they speak volumes In favor O
!, the institution Of which w0 are proud t.
be members. .f H.sa .'-a
In the mechanical department. and
works of art, we had an excellent dis
play in all the latest improvements in
agricultural implements, and labor-sav
ing machinery, Iowa can well com PETE
with her sister States, not only in theil
manufacture but in their use.
In fine, we may congratulate the Off
GERS and members Of the Society thai
your efforts have hitherto been reward
ed with every reasonable measure o
success. Long may such results con
tinuc, as the best stimulants to future
eXertions. ~
Our state is great and noble one, ca
pable Of taking front rank among tn
agricultural States Of the Union. Bu
whether she will avail herself OF thes,
capabilities, rests to u great extent, will
the society, TO whose care her most i'm
portant and primary interests are en-
trusted. We have not yet come to per
fcction. Our society il still young, ant
of tender growth; let us see that IL doe
not meet with disaster or blight, bu
patiently foster it, expecting even il
our dny, to see it grow hearenward-
mighty tree!
One word as TO ourselves as citizsn
Of Iowa, and l am done: We boast o
our land, OF its beauty, Of its salubrity
and of its fertility. We point out Il
the stranger who visits us, our inian
State, already che9uered with railroads
and traversed with the wires Of the tel
egraph but above all, We proudl,
point to our noble and magnificent,
endowed school system. Forever cher
ished, forever honorcd bc the educa
tioiial system Of Iowa-ever protected
ever respected by the Industrious tiller
Of its soil, and the active producers of it
wealth. hat@ IlA fH G s
Let us press on tn acquire uycfu
knowledge of oil that pertains to on
2 -..At
benciits---toy make them universal, AM
equal to any other State of the Unioi
in productivcncss of soil, and beauty o
scenery. Let us resolve that the citi
zens OF our commonwealth shall rani