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farmer, with such habits and modes of saving, finds neither 

 pleasure nor profit in his vocation, endeavoring, as he does, to 

 perform the fundamental work of the summer's campaign with 

 an implement that his team can propel only by spasmodic jerks. 

 Thankful are we that the number of this class of farmers is 

 growing less. The plough should be adapted in structure to 

 the work required of it. No one model is best for all soils and 

 locations. For instance, a stiff, moist, clayey soil will dry bet- 

 ter, and be consequently better pulverized and prepared to 

 receive the seed, with the furrows laid at an angle of some 

 degrees from the horizontal, than with the ploughed surface left 

 perfectly level. 



A rough, stony, tough piece of ground, requires a shorter, 

 and more nearly jjerpendicular mould-board, than a level 

 meadow, free from stones, where the grand desideratum is to 

 turn the furrows as perfectly flat as possible. 



Seven competitors for the premiums at the disposal of your 

 committee, made entries with the secretary of the society. 



Silas N. Brooks, Chairman. 



MANURES 



ESSEX. 



Report of the Committee. 



The Committee on Manures report that no entries liave been 

 made for the society's premiums the present year. Evincing as 

 it does a lack of interest in the farmers of the county, it is to 

 the committee a matter of regret, for they deem it one of the 

 most important subjects within the sphere of the society. 



That there is "gross mismanagement among most farmers in the 

 production and application of manures, we think evident to 

 every careful observer. We believe that upon majiy farms in , 

 Essex county the annual waste of manure amounts to more than 



