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crop, including stalks and husks, $156.60. Expense of raising, 

 $75.87. Profit on the acre, 880.73, and the cost of a bushel of 

 corn, after making the proper allowances, to be 42 cents. 



Mr. Josiah Gibbs makes the following statement : Amount of 

 corn raised to the acre, 75 bushels. Value of crop, including stalks 

 and husks, $115.05. Expense of raising, $56.90. Profit on the 

 acre, $59.15. 



Mr. S. M. Thomas makes the following statement : Amount of 

 corn to the acre, 70 52-72 bushels. Value of the crop, including 

 stalks and husks, $100.53. Expense of raising, $90.40. Profit on 

 the acre, $10.13. 



These estimates coming from one locality are extremely interest- 

 ing and important. And the tables given of wheat and root-crops, 

 are also worthy of careful examination. I would recommend the 

 accuracy and care of this society to its associates throughout the 



Commonwealth. 



Geo. B. Loring. 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



It will be recollected that by a special vote of the Board the An- 

 nual Fair of the Middlesex North Society was arranged with refer- 

 ence to the Annual Exhibition of the New England Agricultural 

 Society. Your delegate visited the grounds of the society one day 

 only during the progress of the fair. Every part of the Middlesex 

 North Society, from its officers down to its smallest interests, seemed 

 so thoroughly managed and absorbed in the New England Society, 

 that your delegate was truly " lonely in a crowd," and he made up 

 his mind that there was nothing for him to see as delegate ; there- 

 fore he could enjoy the show as a member of the New England 

 Society, waiving his official position for the time being. 



There certainly was one element of the exhibition that was 

 properly of the Middlesex North Society, of which your delegate 

 feels that he has a right to say somewhat, — and that is what an 

 Englishman would call " pluck." 



From the inception to the end of the fair, it was evident to the 

 most casual looker-on, that the officers of the local society meant 

 business, and that if they found themselves " with an elephant on 

 their hands" they were intending to do as Barnum did, "house 

 him, care for him, and then make him work." It w T as found that 

 more than ample preparations had been made for a crowd, and 

 that the crowd came to occupy. Their own grounds, which were 

 pretty extensive, had been increased to nearly twice the usual size, 



