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objects ; let every branch of the farmer's interests attract atten- 

 tion, and, in a just measure, be taken under your patronage. 

 Endeavor to walk in a light of science, but prize cheaply 

 theories not reducible to practice. In the numerous specula- 

 tions on various agricultural topics, which abound at the present 

 time, we are in danger, without the exercise of great caution, 

 of being led into errors. Speculative minds, hi the ardor of 

 inquiry, often forget that in practical life, facts should always 

 take precedence of theories. Use with vigilant care the varied 

 means of scientific improvement now enjoyed, and practical 

 improvement will be proportionably accelerated. 



Thirty years of associated labors have produced great good 

 in the county ; let vigorous and enlightened minds in future be 

 energetically employed, and the next thirty years will exhibit 

 a near approach to perfection in cultivation. 



Encouragements to excellence in this work, are direct means 

 of promoting the pecuniary interests of every class of citizens, 

 and indirect means of producing refinement in social feelings, 

 of renovating moral sentiments, and advancing the cause of 

 pure religion. 



Respectfully submitted, 



MORRILL ALLEN. 



George W. Wood's Statement. 



I have made and applied the present year, and carted out, 

 and piled, to be used next spring, two hundred and seventy- 

 eight loads of compost manure, of forty cubic feet each. I 

 have also as much as fifty loads still to get out, that is ready 

 for use. I have made my manure as follows : — In the fall of 

 1848, cleared all my yard of manure, then drew in muck, soil, 

 rushes, brakes, old hay, potato tops, &.C., into my yards, and 

 around my barns, kept my cattle yarded in the foddering 

 months, fed out my poor fodder in the yards, yarded my stock, 

 nights in summer, ploughed it over, and harrowed at various 

 times since August. Made from green manure, from barn and 

 muck soil composted, seventy-one loads; in August, made a 

 compost heap of thirty-five loads, made of fresh grass, rushes. 



