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But, suppose it may cost more to raise stock of this improved 

 character, to furnish our farms with the requisite number, 

 than to purchase promiscuous specimens in the market, as some 

 farmers argue, the superior quality of those raised under our 

 own management, will more than balance the extra expense of 

 raising, if any attends the practice. 



The motto of every intelligent farmer should be that he will 

 raise his own stock ; and, as far as practicable, all those products 

 of the soil required for the maintenance, and conducive to the 

 highest state of development and profit of his herd. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



John Johnson, Jr. 



Framingham, February 1st, 1868. 



This Essay was accepted. 



Voted, To assign the delegates to attend the exhibitions of 

 the year as follows : — 



Essex, at Newburyport, Sept. 29 and 30, ... . 

 Middlesex, at Concord, October 1, 2 and 3, 



Middlesex North, at Lowell, Sept. 23 and 24, . 



Middlesex South, at Framingham, Sept. 22 and 23, . 

 Worcester, at Worcester, Sept. 17 and 18, . 

 Worcester West, at Barre, Sept. 24 and 25, . 

 Worcester North, at Fitchburg, Sept. 29 and 30, 

 Worcester North-west, at Athol, Sept. 15, . 

 Worcester South, at Sturbridge, Oct. 1, . 

 Worcester South-east, at Milford, Sept. 29 and 30, 

 Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, at Northampton, 



Oct. 1 and 2, 



Hampshire, at Amherst, Sept. 29 and 30, . 

 Highland, at Middlefield, Sept. 10 and 11, . 

 Hampden, at Springfield, Oct. 6 and 7, .... 

 Hampden East, at Palmer, Oct. 13 and 14, . 



Union, at Blandford, Sept. IG and 17, 



Franklin, at Greenfield, Sept. 24 and 25, . 

 Berkshire, at Pittsfield, Oct. 6, 7 and 8, . . . . 

 Housatonic, at Great Barrington, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 and 2, 

 HoosAC Valley, at North Adams, Sept. 22, 23 and 24, 

 Norfolk, at Dedham, Sept. 17 and 18, 

 Marshfield, at Marshfield, Oct. 1 and 2, . 

 Bristol, at Taunton, Oct. 6, 7 and 8, . 

 Bristol Central, at Myrick's, Sept. 17 and 18, . 

 Plymouth, at Bridgewater, Sept. 24, 25 and 26, . 

 Hingham, at Hingham, Sept. 29 and 30, 

 Barnstable, at Barnstable, Oct. 13 and 14, 

 Nantucket, at Nantucket, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, . 

 Martha's Vineyard, at West Tisburj^, Oct. 20 and 21, 



I. K. Brown. 

 Nathan Durfee. 

 George B. Loring. 

 James Thompson. 

 Albert Fearing. 

 M. F. Watkins. 

 C. C. Bassett. 

 Leverett Saltonstall. 

 T. D. Thatcher. 

 J. Pierce. 



C. G. Davis. 

 E. W. Boise. 

 A. P. Slade. 

 William Knowlton. 

 George M. Baker. 

 J. A. Morton. 

 George A. King. 

 Thomas Billings. 

 E. W. Bull. 

 H. S. Ward. 

 N. S. Hubbard. 

 Asa Clement. 

 C. Sanderson. 

 William Birnie. 

 H. S. Porter. 

 T. W. Ward. 

 Alexander Hyde. 

 J. Johnson, Jr. 

 J. L. Cole. 



