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marketing from "Warren to Boston, was not far from three- 

 fourths of a cent per pound. In addition to the above income, 

 the whey is estimated to be worth from four to six dollars per 

 cow. 



With these improvements in the management of the dairy, 

 and the modern machinery brought to the aid of the farmer, 

 much of the labor, both in doors and out, is very much light- 

 ened, and the business rendered far more inviting, as well as 

 more remunerative. 



I give a list of thoroughbred stock, as far as I have been able 

 to obtain it. Bela J. Stone, of Sturbridge, has fifteen Ayr- 

 shires ; J. A. Rich, of Charlton, has eight Ayrshires ; the Ham- 

 ilton Woollen Company, of Southbridge, have eleven Ayrshires 

 and six Jerseys ; W. Hammond, of Charlton, has five Durhams ; 

 E. M. Holman, of Millbury, has five Durhams ; Daniel Dwight, 

 of Dudley, has one Durham bull ; Waldo M. Healey, has five 

 Devons ; H. H. Stevens, of Dudley, has one Ayrshire bull ; 

 Simon Carpenter, of Charlton, has one Durham bull ; Zeph- 

 aniah Baker, of Dudley, has some Devons ; S. F. Marsh, and 

 Nathaniel Upham, of Sturbridge, have some Devons. There 

 probably are others, but these are all that I have positive 

 knowledge of, within the limits of the society. 



Newton S. Hubbard. 



This Report was adopted, when a similar Report was offered 

 upon the 



AGRICULTURE OP MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



BT ASA CLEMENT. 



In our nieanderings around that part of the county compos- 

 ing the society which we represent, in search of material for a 

 report which would in some respects prove interesting, edifying 

 or instructive to any one whose eye should meet this, it has 

 seemed much like the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. 



Possibly there is nothing new, unique or strikingly different 

 in the husbandry of this from other sections of the State. 

 Nevertheless, owing to the position and central circumstances, 

 (if the expression is admissable,) Lowell, a thriving manufac- 

 turing city, being the hub of our agricultural wheel, there may 

 be some peculiarities in the towns composing the spokes and rim 



