First Address

May 5, 1818 Timothy Pickering made the first address to the newly formed Essex Agricultural Society. In it he called the importance of agriculture “universally acknowledged” and discussed, in deep detail, his own observations about the best way to sow carrot seeds, distribute manure, and carry out experiments and observations as a farmer. His address included these comments

How, indeed, are we fed,clothes, and warmed? By the productions of the earth. How shall these be rendered abundant? And most abundant? To subsist greater numbers than now depend on them? By improvements in Agriculture, taking this word in its largest sense, and comprehending every object meriting the attention of the husbandman.

Pickering essentially was the Essex Agricultural Society Ambassador, promoting and teaching agricultural findings our farmers had learned, and sharing it with the community.