REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 161 



WORCESTER. 



By appointment of the Board of Agriculture, I had the honor 

 of attending the forty-first annual exhibition of the Worcester 

 County Agricultural Society. Notwithstanding the formation 

 of new societies within the county limits, dividing the strength 

 which lies in aggregate numbers, and diverting the attention of 

 those who have formerly given their personal aid to the parent 

 society, the exhibition of farm products, and of stock, of all 

 kinds, equalled that of any former year, and was very satis- 

 factory and encouraging to all who have an abiding interest in 

 Agriculture. The annual address was made by Hon. Josiah 

 Quincy. The conveniences provided on the show-grounds of 

 tlie society for the keeping of large numbers of stock during 

 the exhibition, are sufficient to amply meet the wishes of 

 exhibitors. The advantages which the society will ultimately 

 derive from the outlay of $8,200 in constructing and fitting 

 up a spacious building upon their fair-grounds will be as lasting 

 as the existence of the society. The ground story of the build- 

 ing is appropriated to the exhibition of heavy agricultural imple- 

 ments ; the second story is used for the exhibition of the lighter 

 implements of agriculture, vegetables, grains and other pro- 

 ducts of the farm and the dairy, with suits of rooms for the 

 secretary, the committee of award, and for the president and 

 directors of the society. The third story hall is fitted with 

 accommodations to prepare and serve a dinner for five hundred 

 or more members of the society ; also with a larder room to 

 furnish all necessary refreshments during the continuance 

 of the exhibition. 



By giving a summary of the farmers' taxable list in Worces- 

 ter County and the annual product of their farms, I can better 

 inform you of their true condition, than by a continued state- 

 ment of the doings at their late fair. The number of acres 

 of improved land in Worcester County is 516,632. The num- 

 ber of acres of unimproved land is 251,083. The estimated 

 cash value of farm lands in 1855 was $22,127,322. The 

 sum invested in farm implements and machinery was $586,608, 

 added to the cash value of neat and other stock, making the 

 sum of $25,857,318. The total products of the farms in 



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