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recommend that he should be rewarded for the experiment* 

 which he has so carefully made, and encouraged to continue- 

 them, by an award of the diploma of the society. 



In conclusion, the committee must express an earnest wish 

 that the working farmers of Essex county may be induced to 

 compete for the premiums of the society for " the best man- 

 aged farms." Our wealth owes its origin to productive labor, 

 and if some of our thrifty yeomen Avould tell how they man- 

 age their farms, often small in extent, and what their profits 

 are on the amount of capital invested therein, it could but 

 increase the number of cultivators of the soil. It may be- 

 safely asserted tliat every industrious, temperate farmer in Es- 

 sex county, who scatters the seed in faith, reaps the harvest in? 

 joy ; and that although manufacturers and merchants occasion- 

 ally draw i^rizes in their lotteries of life, the farmers enjoy 

 health, contentment, independence, and a competence — the- 

 true earthly elements of human happiness. 



For the Committee — Ben. Perley Poore. 



GKAIX CROPS. 



Your Committee, to whom were entrusted entries of this- 

 important crop, would submit the following report : 



There were four entries of Grain Crops, three of Rye and 

 one of Corn. 



The entries of Rye Avere made by A. P. Xoyes, of Middle- 

 ton, S. A. Merrill, of Danvcrs, and J. C. and Romulus 

 Jaques, of West Newbury, who also entered corn. 



It was the intention of the chairman of this committee to^ 

 notify each member to visit the farms on wliich all the crops en- 

 tered were growing ; but Avhen he was notified of the entry of 

 the Messrs. Jaques's crop of rye, there was no time to call a 

 meeting of the committee before the reaper's hand would be 

 upon it. He therefore, on the morning of the 1 2th of Jidy,. 



