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7th. Door yards laid with grass and flower-beds, and shaded 

 by ornamental trees, indicating to the passer-by the dwelling 

 of taste, health and comfort. 



8th. A kitchen garden higldy cultivated, and containing every 

 species of vegetable that can be raised in our climate, with 

 strawberry and asparagus beds. 



9tli. A fruit garden or orchard, where choice apples, cherries 

 and plums are carefully cultivated, and where can be found neat 

 rows of raspberry, gooseberry, blackberry and currant bushes. 



It will be seen, also, that the propriety of increasing the 

 amount of the premiums on farms, and extending the entries 

 over a term of years, during which the whole operations of 

 the farm would be under the inspection of the committee, is 

 strongly impressed upon the attention of societies. 



ESSEX. 



The committee would suggest to the trustees the expedi- 

 ency of revising the mode of offering premiums on farms ; and 

 they beg leave to propose the plan of entering farms for a 

 period of not less tlian three years, to be viewed, as now, twice 

 each year, and the first premium to be $100, and the second, 

 $50. To your committee it does seem important that some 

 revised mode should be adopted, which it maybe hoped will 

 increase the number and grade of farms offered for the society's 

 premiums. 



Richard P. "Waters, Chauman. 



Josiah Crosby^ s Statement. 



In calling your attention to my farm, I feel some reluctance, 

 in consequence of the very prevalent idea among farmers, that 

 none but large and decidedly model farms should be considered 

 worthy of a premium. But notwithstanding this opinion, 

 experience and observation have taught me that small farms 

 declare the largest relative dividends ; and in corroboration of 

 this statement, I could, if my limits would permit, cite many 

 instances of farms in this county, containing ten or twelve acres, 



