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question is, Who lias accomplished most in rearing stock, 

 improving his lands and buildings, and supporting a family, 

 according to the means he has had to do with ? 



Another cause may he that farmers neglect all thoiights of 

 entering their farms, until the season is so far passed, and so 

 much of their business has been done without note or observa- 

 tion, that they find it too late to prepare to apply to the com- 

 mittee. 



Other causes may exist which do not suggest themselves to 

 your committee at this time ; but the foregoing are sufficient, if 

 valid, to account for the apparent apathy manifested in regard 

 to the premiums offered for the particular object of which we 

 speak. 



Your committee, in view of what has been stated, respect- 

 fully recommend, that the offer of premiums for the best culti- 

 vated and most productive farms, with such modifications as 

 may seem desirable, be continued, and that measures be taken 

 to diffuse as widely as possible, amongst the members, a knowl- 

 edge of these premiums ; and also, that all farms, of whatever 

 size, are entitled to notice and reward, if found sufficiently 

 meritorious. 



Amasa Walker, Chairman. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



We found the farm of Mr. Abel F. Adams, of Fitchburg, 

 duly entered on the Secretary's book for our inspection. 

 Accordingly the committee, on the 5th of September, paid 

 their respects to him. We spent the forenoon in viewing his 

 orchard and buildings, and the improvements contiguous to 

 them. With all these we were much pleased, finding them 

 arranged in the most convenient manner to facilitate the opera- 

 tions for which they were intended, combining utility with 

 strict economy. His facilities for making manure were found 

 to be such as to suffer nothing to be lost. One barn, ninety by 

 thirty-six feet, and one fifty by thirty feet, with cellars under 

 the whole, with suitable out-buildings, were found to contain 

 keeping and stabling for some fifty head of cattle and horses, 



