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7. More uniform prices, and a better and certain knowledge 

 of market prices. 



8. An increase of social intercourse among farmers. 



9. More knowledge, by meeting people from a larger extent 

 of territory, and comparing products, and experience. 



10. A more extended interchange of products among farm- 

 ers, by which each can sooner learn what he can buy cheaper 

 than he can raise, and also have better means of making the 

 necessary purchases and exchanges. 



11. As a consequence of the above, greater division of agri- 

 cultural labor among farmers, and more skill and profit, each 

 devoting himself more to a single branch of agricultural pro- 

 duction. 



12. Additional stimulus to do better by seeing a better arti- 

 cle obtain a better price, and consequently a better and more 

 thorough culture throughout the land. 



13. By bringing the city produce dealer to the market, 

 making the productive farm, remote from Boston, nearly as 

 valuable for agricultural purposes as a farm or market garden 

 in the neighborhood of a city. 



14. Additional facilities for the employment of labor. 



15. Additional facilities for the transaction of business 

 generally. 



Charles G. Davis, 

 R. S. Fay, 

 Wm. Sutton, 



Committee of the Board. 



At a meeting of the Board held at the State House in Boston, 

 on the 29th of November, 1859, a committee was appointed, 

 consisting of Messrs. Bartlett, Fisher, Brown and Grennell, to 

 consider what action should be taken in compliance with the 

 Act of the legislature for the encouragement of farmers' clubs. 

 That committee, after deliberation, submitted the following 



REPORT: 



That the chief, perhaps the only object attempted at this 

 time should be the establishment of farmers' clubs and the 

 aiding of those already established. The committee are not 



