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chopped and steamed, mixed with meal or barley meal, for fattening 

 cattle and swine. 



In conclusion, we would once more urge upon farmers the forma- 

 tion and generous support of town clubs, or associations for mutual 

 encouragement and help. These clubs or associations are obviously 

 needed, and may be made the sources of benefits which can hardly 

 be overestimated. They may be particularly^ useful in a large part 

 of this County by enabling the several members of them to avail 

 themselves, at comparatively trifling cost, of a large number and 

 variety of the best Agricultural books and newspapers which a com- 

 mon fund might easily procure. Still further they would, in much 

 the same way, furnish many individuals the help of labor-saving 

 implements and conveniences which their separate means would not 

 aiFord, however desirable such help might be. The most intelligent 

 farmers, and best managed farms will generally be found where 

 valuable Agricultural books and papers are most extensively read ; 

 and the most thrifty and contented cultivators of the soil will gen- 

 erally be seen, we believe, where the best implements and means for 

 saving hard toil and a too often limited time are always at hand. 



We venture to refer to our suggestions in a former report, upon 

 the expediency of sub-dividing the Committee on Farms for specified 

 objects. We subjoin, also, a series of " standard requisites and 

 evidences of good farming," which we have found in a late number 

 of a distant journal,* and recommend to be kept in view, though it 

 may not be more than approximated to, in deciding the claims of any 

 future applicants for the premiums of this Society. 



Respectfully submitted for the Committee, by 



CHARLES C. SEWALL, Chairman. 



Northern Journal, Watertown, N. Y. 



