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such a tiling as a hog that can be raised and fattened profitably in 

 Massachusetts, it might have been found in their pens. 



Without enlarging upon the exhibition of fruit and vegetables in the 

 hall, which is always creditable with this society, your delegate cannot 

 but express his satisfaction -with the many indications which he found, 

 of care and attention to the accurate business of agriculture. System- 

 atic devotion to special objects, the only profitable scheme of farming 

 known in this State, was manifest everywhere. And in careful breed- 

 ing and careful cultivation, there was abundant opportunity for the 

 student to apply accurate and useful observation. 



The address on the occasion was delivered by Judge French. It was 

 an account of the flowing of the Sudbury meadows ; and was listened 

 • to with that attention which might be expected from those who have a 

 personal interest in this long and difficult controversy between the 

 farmers and manufacturers of this section of the Commonwealth. This 

 address was delivered at the dinnei'-table — a plan which may have its 

 advantages — but it undoubtedly has its disadvantages. It is evident 

 that no address, whether upon agriculture, education, politics or religion, 

 can be equally adapted to a church, a hall, an out-door audience, and a 

 dinner-table. An address is one thing — an after-dinner speech another 

 and quite different thing. And a speech worthy of being called an 

 agricultural address, containing instruction and an appeal to the intelli- 

 gence and activity of farmers, should not form a part of a festivity or a 

 mere social entertainment. The old-fashioned mode of delivering these 

 addresses in the village church had great advantages ; so has the modern 

 one of delivering them in an appropriate hall. But no man can tell the 

 trial of instructing an audience in rivalry with trotting horses or a 

 tempting dessert until he has tried it. 



Your delegate cannot speak too well of the activity and energy dis- 

 played by the Middlesex South Agricultural Society. 



Geo. B. Loring. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



The fifteenth annual fair of the Worcester North Agricultural Society 

 was held on the 24th and 25th of Septembei'. Both days were pleas- 

 ant, the attendance large, and an enthusiasm manifest, which augured 

 well for the future of this society. If the exhibition of stock, fruit, 

 vegetables, farming implements and domestic manufactures, and espe- 

 cially of men, is as good throughout the State as at Fitchburg, our 

 agricultural societies are not failures, and their epitaph need not be 



