346 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



much better would our annual exhibitions be attended, and how 

 much greater their influence and usefulness ! 



The present tendency of things is in the direction of such a 

 movement as we propose. 



At first, we had only one agricultural society in the State, 

 then a society in each county ; now our counties are subdivided, 

 and these societies are yearly multiplying. 



In a few isolated cases, farmers' clubs have been formed and 

 found successful. To complete the system, we want these small 

 societies formed in all the towns, and the whole united into one 

 grand and cooperative system of popular agricultural education, 

 under the auspices and patronage of the government of the 

 State. Shall we have it ? The farmers, especially the young 

 farmers, of the old Bay State, must answer the question. 



