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made, the treasurer of the society, Thomas Motley, 

 visited Europe and procured a bull and four cows of 

 the Jersey, or Alderney, breed of cattle. These, on 

 arrival, were placed in charge of Mr. Thomas Motley, 

 one of the trustees of the society, at his farm in West 

 Roxbury. In 1852 the society made one more effort 

 to get from the State of Maine the half-township of 

 land, which, through technicalities, had failed to come 

 into its possession upon the separation of the district 

 of Maine from the State of Massachusetts, the Legis- 

 lature of which had made the grant. In October of 

 this year the decease of Daniel Webster took place, 

 and at the meeting of trustees next ensuing, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was adopted: 



Whereas, it has pleased Divine Providence to re- 

 move by death our late distinguished vice president, 

 the Hon. Daniel Webster. 



Resolved, That while the trustees of this society, in 

 common with their fellow citizens, entertain a due 

 sense of the many eminent services rendered to the 

 public by Mr. Webster in his political and professional 

 capacity, they feel bound more particularly to speak 

 of the warm attachment which he manifested, 

 throughout his life, by word and by example, to the 

 pursuit of agriculture; to bear witness to his compre- 

 hensive views of its general principles, and his thor- 

 ough acquaintance with its practical details, and to 

 express their sense of his loss as one of the ablest, most 

 constant and most distinguished friends of that great 

 interest in our own or in any country. 



The year 1853 is the date of the beginning of opera- 

 tions by the State Board of Agriculture, which was 

 created by an act passed in the preceding year. 

 Thenceforth, the formal annual report, which, since 



