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They also received another Essay, written in a fine fair fe- 

 male hand, to which they would gladly have awarded a second 

 premium if they had been authorized so to do. In a note ac- 

 companying it, over the signature of " Alice Lisle," it is 

 stated that '' it was written in the intervals of domestic duties 

 by a young farmer's wife.'''' It contains many valuable sugges- 

 tions, but the committee do not think they are authorized to 

 publish portions of it without the express assent of the fair 

 writer. 



The committee met for the discharge of their duty, at 

 Westborough, and availed themselves of the opportunity of vis- 

 iting the State Reform School, and were highly gratified with 

 the arrangement and good order of the establishment, the be- 

 havior of the pupils, and with the improvement now in progress 

 in the arrangement and management of the land. A very con- 

 venient barn has been constructed and favorably located to ac- 

 commodate the different parts of the farm — large preparation 

 to manufacture manure, has been made, and with the labor of 

 the pupils, this may be a model farm for the instruction of the 

 agricultural community, and may prove to be one of the most 

 benevolent institutions in the Commonwealth to the inmates, 

 and highly useful to others. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



An Essay on the " Means to be used to create a deeper 

 Interest in the cause of Agriculture." 



By T. D. p. Stone. 



The success of past efforts is a strong argument in favor of 

 their being continued, and that with an increase of zeal. What 

 has been done to awaken thought, secure capital, and induce 

 experiments for the advancement of our agricultural interests, 

 not only shows what may be done, must be done, and will be 

 done, — but how to do it. The press is to teem with new incen- 

 tives to till the soil and to increase its products. The State 

 and county society and local association is still to exert its ap- 



