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particular. His whole stock consists of fourteen cows; a yoke 

 of oxen, two heifers, a horse, and six swine ; all were in 

 fine order. There appeared no neglect on his farm ; all was 

 turned to the best account. He had made the previous week 

 eighty pounds of butter, which he sold for twenty-five cents 

 per pound. 



Your committee, in conclusion, would remark that in pass- 

 ing through the several towns, we found that old, crooked, and 

 dilapidated stone walls had been removed, and replaced by new 

 face and balance walls, placed on trenches filled with stone, to 

 protect the walls from heaving with the frost, and to act as 

 drains for surface water. Bushes were eradicated by the pick 

 and plough ; roads were straightened and improved ; fields were 

 made more productive, and where indifference had prevailed, 

 now the inquiry is prompt and pertinent, are these lands to be 

 improved, and what is the best method ? It was cheering to 

 witness such sentiments. The practice of farming in the up- 

 per towns of the county is somewhat different from that in the 

 lower, or towns bounded on the sea coast ; but in point of zeal 

 there is no difference, each division manifesting good judgment, 

 applied to their respective locations, and your committee are 

 pleased to add, that they believe that there will be yearly, a 

 large amount of waste land brought into profitable cultivation, 

 with an unabating zeal in the inhabitants to improve in the 

 cause of agriculture, horticulture, and floriculture, giving to the 

 county of Norfolk, all the essential elements to perpetuate a 

 most flourishing state of society. 



B. V. FRENCH, Chairman. 



Grain Crops. 



Three claims were presented for the society's premiums ; two 

 on wheat, and one on Indian corn ; Rev. C. C. Sewall, of 

 Medfield, and Horatio Mason, of Medway, for wheat, and Jared 

 Allen, of Dover, for corn. 



The chairman of the committee examined the fields where 



