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And, on cheap summit-levels of the snow, 

 Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods 

 O'er meadows bottomless. So, year by year 

 They tight the elements with elements; 

 That one would'say, meadow and forest walked, 

 Transmuted in these men to rule their like, 

 And by the order in the field disclose 

 The order regnant in the yoeman's brain." 



Eliphalet Stone. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



The eighteenth annual exhibition of the Middlesex South Ag- 

 ricultural Society, was held at the Society's grounds in Framing- 

 ham, September 19th and 20th. The absence of Hon. Albert 

 Fearing, the appointed delegate, induced the society to call upon 

 myself, a casual visitor, for a report upon its condition. 



The exhibitions at Framingham are well known as among the 

 most interesting in this Commonwealth. They have always been 

 conducted with unusual skill and energy, by an efficient corps of 

 officers, aided by an enterprising agricultural community. The ex- 

 hibition of this year was fully equal to, and perhaps in advance of, 

 its predecessors. Without entering into an elaborate description of 

 the animals, vegetables, fruit and machinery on the ground, it is 

 sufficient to say that all departments were well represented, and 

 that they were all inspected by an interested and admiring crowd. 

 The arrangements were excellent, — the president, George B. Brown, 

 Esq., exercising a vigilant supervision over everything, and inspir- 

 ing the occasion with his well-known enthusiasm. And he may 

 well congratulate himself that within the limits of his society 

 there are such herds of Jersey, Ayrshire and Dutch cattle, such 

 admirable horses, poultry and swine, and such garden and field 

 crops, as belong to the breeders and cultivators of Framingham 

 snd the surrounding towns. 



It would be unjust to this society did I fail to call special atten- 

 tion to their annual report. A well printed and well arranged 

 pamphlet of more than seventy closely printed pages, — it contains 

 a fund of valuable suggestions and tables upon many matters of 

 agricultural interest. The statements made by the exhibitors are 

 well drawn, and are full of useful facts. We learn, for instance, 

 that Mr. John Johnson, a member of this Board, estimates a corn 

 crop as follows : — 



Amount of corn raised to the acre, 93 bushels. Value of the 



