Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10

would make the great city of Maine q
commercial metropolis of immediate
greatness and future power. We trust
the capitalists of Portland will not cease
their labors in behalf of this great scheme
until it is among the accomplished facts
of an era which has accomplished not a
! few things requiring much more money
and enterprise than this will require,
without being intrinsically or prospect
lively more valuable to the trade and com
merce of the world. We must go to
Portland in few years as easily as we
now go to New York, without change OF
cars.
New England Agricultural Society.
The annual meeting of the New Eng
land Agricultural Society was held on
Tuesday, at the Meionaon, in fremont
Temple, Boston. There was a large at
tendance of members, most of whom rep
resented the States of Massachusetts,
New Hampshire and Vermont. Shortly
before eleven o'clock the meeting was
called to order by the President, Hon.
Geo. B. Loring, who, in a pertinent ad-
dress, congratulated the members upon
the position the association had attained
at the present time. He felt sure that
there was no member of the society who
did not feel that in all its career it had
done its duty, had been faithful to the
agricultural interests of New England,
and that its services had been of great
benefit to those States Abiding to the
last exhibition at Portland, the President
remarked that it was equal in all respects
to it's predecessors. There was manifest
improvement in the condition of cattle
on exhibition. Everything, in fact, was
England Society had had great influence
upon the agriculture of the States com
prised within it's limits-a far greater in
fuence than he had ever dared to
anticipate. The farmers of Massa-
chusetts, active and vigorous and prosper
Gus as they were, with the agricultural
college on the one hand, striving to be
the best educational system in the world
of that description, and with literal and
opulent Commonwealth on the other,
standing by every farmer who desired to
do his duty-he knew the farmers would
bear witness to the advantage which the
Association had wrought here in their
midst. 1t was the same in New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Yer
rn01+ Ha Lpau tlat tho ,,rourass m ad a
in those States in the Improvement of cat
Ele. in the cultivation of land and ia the
general taste for farming, had been excited
and stimulated not only by the existence
of the Society, but by the presence of the
farmers at their annual meetings. The
speaker referred at some length to the
statement so frequently made that farm
ing was improbable. There was no such
thing, he said, as Improbable agriculture,
but there was such thing as improbable
neglect, misdirection, idleness and ignor-
ance, but no such thing on the face of Gods
fertile earth as unproftableness in skill
full, industrious agriculture. DR. Loring
contended that the national prosperity of
this country was to be traced to the agri-
culture, and concluded by expressing the
hope that the members would endeavor
in every honest and firm and reasonable
way to induce the young men who were
deserting the soil in all the great agrioul-
tural centres, to return to the honest busi-
ness of their fathers.
The society proceeded to the election
of officers The preident appointed J.
H. Hills of Boston, Charles Williams of
Manchester, N. H, and Henry Clark of
Rutland, VT, as tellers. Separate ballots
were then taken for officers for the ensu-
ing year, with the following result:
President-Hon. George B. Loring, Sa-
lem, Mass.
Secretary - Daniel Needham, Groton,
Mass.
7Teasmer-George w. Riddle, Man
chester, N. H.
A recess of five minutes was then TAX
en- for the purpose of allowing the dele
gates from the different States an oppor-
tunity of nominating list of vice-presi-
dents and managers.
On the meeting coming to order, the
chairmen of the different delegations re-
ported as follows:
Maine-Vice President, Thos. S. Lang,
North Vasselboro'. Trustees, S. L. Good
all, Saco; Columbus Stewart, North An
son Seth Scammons, Scarboro'; Waldo
T. Pierce, Bangor; Geo. w. Kicker, Bath;
J. T. Anderson, North Windham; Calvin
Chamberlain, Foxcroft; George f. Shep-
ley, Portland; P. B. Gilman, Orono.
New Hampshire-yice President, Fred
erick Smyth, Manchester; Trustees, ID.
II. Goodsell, Antrim Warren E. Daniel,
Franklin Warren Brown, Hampton
Falls; Charles Williams, Manchester;
John ID. Bailey, Portsmouth George A.
Pillsbury, Concord Robert Ellwell,
Langdon; Charles M. Murphy, Dover
Greenleaf Clarke, Atkinson.
Vermont-Vice President, E. s. Sto-
well, Cornwall. Trustees Henry Clark,
Rutland; George Campbell, westmins-
ter; O. S. Bliss, Georgia; P. Winslow,
Putney; G. G. Chandler, Montpelier; L.
T. Tucker, Royalton; Fl. M. Hall, East
Burke; L. s. Drew, South Burlington !;
III. B. Kent, Dorset.
Massachusetts, President, VIM.
S. Clark kof Amherst College. Trus-
tees, s. III. Howe, Boston; Thomas Saun-
ders. Salem: Richard Goodman. Lanox