Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-20
ADDRESS BY HON. ANUS CLARK, JR.


The state fair was closed practically,
on Thursday. Yesterday the various
committees made out their lists and the
awards will be published in a day or two.
Yesterday, Hon. Amos Clark, Jr., pre-
sident of the society, took occasion to
address the society in the following
language
The Fifteenth annual meeting of the
State Agricultural Society of New Jer-
sey, began ON Tuesday with such good
promise, continued with so much salts
faction is now my duty to proclaim has
come to happy conclusion. We have
reason to be thankful for the favorable
conditions under which our fair has been
held. The weather has been magnifi-
cent until yesterday. The competition
of exhibitors has been animated. Good
feeling and good order have prevailed
among the thousands in attendance.
We have no reason to doubt that the
great objects for which this society was
formed, have been satisfactorily pro-
NOTED. Its founders and friends have
every reason to be encouraged in Their
efforts to continue and extend its use
fulness.
The various products of garden, orch
ard and field, exhibited here, mark the
great improvement that is constantly
going on among our agriculturists. We
welcome the noble display of fruits from
distant States, and admit them to fair
and generous rivalry with our own,
ready to concede merit wherever found,
and to initiate excellence by VIII omsoev-
er exhibited.
The farmers of New Jersey can afford
to be generous, for surely their lot is
favored and happy one. In the noun
tains and valleys and plains of our noble
State, there is variety of scenery and soil,
to please the eye with its beauty, and
reward the toiler with its fertility. And
over all prevails healthful and temper
ate climate, avoiding the extremes of
heat and cold, which alike are foes to
the farmers comfort and prosperity.
And the browning advantage of New
Jersey is, that two of the greatest mark
cts of the continent-the cities of Phil
adelphia and Now York-lie ON either
side, while she owns the very docks over
which the old and new world must for
ever trade.
While the farmers of the fertile West
ern states are struggling and repining
under the cruel disadvantage that COM
pels often the payment of two bushels
of grain for the getting of one bushel to
market, the New Jersey farmers have at
their doors the choice of the markets,
foreign and domestic, at a cost of
freightage SO small as scarcely to be re-
cognized as deduction from their pro-
fits. With such facts in favor of New
Jersey, along with its wonderful fertil-
ity, and with SUCH evidences as are al
ways before us of the rapidly growing
population of the United States, and
consequently of its great cities whose
very gardens the entire state of New
Jersey must eventually become, who
can deny that the most valuable and
productive body of land in the world
will in a few generations be the farms
of New Jersey whose products are from
year to year exhibited on these grounds?
Can give better advice, then, to the
honest and intelligent Jersey farmers
who annually assemble here, than to
say, if you loveyour sons and daughters,
if you wish to leave them goodly in
hertance, encourage them to study
farming and to follow it not as druid
gerry, but as science, if not fine art !;
to grow fruits to rear fine stock and
above all, to cling to their homes; to
improve and beautify them from year to
year feeling assured that these posses
sions have in the near future value the
world cannot rival-something that
commercial panics and revulsions can
never destroy and that will yield
steady support when shares and stocks
and even governments" go to bank
ruptcy.
And as New Jersey is the admitted
gateway through which the old world
sends its millions of emigrants into the
new, what more than here ON our soil
should grow up permanent and Ma
tional Fair, where all the States should
present their products and make their
appeals to the eyes of the searchers for
new homes =? At all events let New
Jersey farmers and New Jersey manu-
features, who have met on our grounds
this year in such warm accord, continue
to press on the worlds view the skill of
our shops and the wealth of our fields,
and thus hold the vantage ground which
fortune has given them.
Hoping to see next fall all of you who
are living, again present, and many
thousands more whose interest in our
affairs shall then be awakened, and
thanking exhibitors for the efforts
which made this annual meeting so
pleasant and profitable, now, as Presi-
dent, declare the exhibition brought to
a close.
CAPTAIN THOMAS FLANAGAN,