Address of Thomas Gold, Esq

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Address of Thomas Gold, Esq.: Delivered Before the Berkshire Association, for the Promotion of Agriculture and Manufactures, at Pittsfield, Oct. 3d, 1816 The duties of the day require me to review the e vents and transactions which have happened since the foundation of the society, that roiate to agriculture and manufactures, the legitimate objects of the institution. In executing this task, i shall be allowed by your in dulgenee to ask your attention to such topics as con cern the general welfare of this institution, rather than to details of rural management. If Vt e had the leis tire to prepare an appropriate lecture on the composi tion of our soiis on experiments to ascertain their native fitness for various modes of cultivation, and creps on the na 11 re and preparation of manurcs on the rearing and managing of our domestic animals 3 on the means if rendering farms more fruitful on the various species of sustenance composing the getable creation on the planting, rearing and pre ration of fruit and forest trees on materials for man? Tifaetures and the i'aeasnres to promote them, it might, well be doubted whether this he a fit occasion for such a display. Respect for my audience, and sincere con. cern for the Velfare of the Basic y, induce me to omit these topics, and (levcte myself to other considerations which the crisis imperiously demands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.