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we sec not why the ladies miglat not still be efficient co-worTcers 

 at least in one important part of the transactions of the day. 



The number of persons in attendance was also less than at 

 some other gathering-s of a similar character. This was the 

 more noticeable from the place of the exhibition, at tlie heart 

 of the Commonwealth, and the heart of so large and rich an 

 agricultural county, especially in connection with the fact that 

 but one day was devoted to the show. 



Two things appear to us extremely desirable in the affairs of 

 an agricultural society. The first is definitcness and accuracy 

 in all its doings. To this the Worcester Society have directed 

 much attention, and in a high degree secured their object. 



Very accurate measurements are required in every thing 

 capable of being thus determined, and full and definite state- 

 ments of what it is, and how it was produced, made the condi- 

 tion of all successful competition. So far as we have observed, 

 the Worcester Society is, in this particular, leading all the 

 other associations in the State. 



We place popularity as the second object, or rather the 

 equally important object. We use the tenn in a high and noble 

 sense, as designating that power which takes hold on the great 

 mass of the people, moving the heart to activity in personal 

 investigation, and the hand to energetic action; which shall 

 give the society and its interests a place in all the plans of the 

 season ; which shall cause " Cattle Show " in all the dwellings, 

 not only in the sunny valley, but on the colder hill-sides, to be 

 an era from which, like Thanksgiving and 4th of July, time shall 

 be measured ; an event of wliich every farmer shall speak as of 

 a concern in which he has a personal interest, entitling him to 

 use the terms we and our whenever he speaks of it, and of his 

 purposes in reference to it. AVithout this popularity, a society 

 will become a club of amateurs, making many valuable investi- 

 gations, and recording them for the instruction of the world ; 

 but when the results of tliat instruction are looked for, the 

 truth will appear, that the eye must be opened before it can be 

 made to see, and incpiiry elicited, before the answer will be 

 needed, and that in agricultural education, as well as in all 

 other education, personal exertion and personal interest, are 

 indispensable to success. 



