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other farms in different parts of the county, enabling them to com- 

 pare the different modes of cultivation, and variety of crops cultiva- 

 ted, with the different success. The committee were directed to 

 visit such farms as were entered for premium^, and all others where 

 the owners should signify a wish to receive a call from, the committee ^ 

 and a readiness to furnish a statement of their management. 



Notwithstanding in the County of Essex^ much of the enterprize 

 is called to other pursuits than agriculture, there is a good market 

 and a fertile soil, and much of it highly cultivated in all parts of the 

 county. And at the present time, in the opinion of the committee, 

 the owners and cultivators of the soil here have full encouragement 

 to redouble their efforts in availing themselves of all the means of in- 

 formation within their reach, and prosecuting with renewed energy 

 their honorable occupation. 



It must be obvious to all, that a great physical change has been 

 ])roduced through the agency of steam as a motive power, within the 

 the last half century. And the more recent discovery of rail roads, 

 for the transportation of passengers, merchandize, produce, and live 

 stock, which have already checkered our whole countr^'^ furnishing 

 cheap and easy transportation to the cultivators of the soil many 

 hundred miles in the interior, where the price of land and the expense 

 of cultivation are comparatively small, may have, to some extent, 

 for the few years past, injuriously affected the cultivators of the soil 

 near our old markets, where the price of land is high, and expense 

 of cultivation large. But it does not require prophetic vision to per- 

 ceive that the cultivators of the soil here have passed this crisis, and 

 are fast recovering their equilibrium, and will soon find themselves 

 erect again, with their friends and neighb<H-s in other pursuits. The 

 partial failure of the potatoe crop for several years, and the fruit crop 

 for the two past years, has affected the income of the farmers in this 

 county to some extent. The other products of the farm have been 

 abundant, and our domestic market has been rapidly increasing here, 

 and extending into the interior. While the cultivators in the more 

 fertile regions of the west, where crops are less uncertain and ex- 

 penses small, are finding a foreign demand for much of their produce, 

 prices of the products of the farm here are recovering to such an 

 extent as to reward the laborer for his toil, and give him a small div- 

 idend on his capital. Nothing seems wanting to the cultivators of the 

 soil of this county, to ensure success, but knoweldge, patience, per- 



