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Worcester County. Railroads enter the cities of this group 

 from twelve different directions direct from the producing sec- 

 tions." 



Worcester has been discussed separately in chapter IX. of 

 this report as a most desirable center for an agricultural school. 

 The resources of the city are rich, the agricultural production 

 of its outlying sections is large, the population conditions are 

 adequate, its transportation facilities are excellent, and the 

 enterprise of its local agricultural and horticultural organiza- 

 tions is noteworthy. Few communities could offer conditions 

 more promising for the successful establishment and mainte- 

 nance of such a school than those which would be found in 

 Worcester. 



(4) " Another group of cities/' indicated by Secretary Ells- 

 worth, " lie along the Merrimac River in no them Essex County. 

 Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill and Newburyport make up this 

 group, and afford markets for that section of the State. The 

 railroads are numerous, but do not enter into the movement of 

 produce to these markets to any extent, most of it being drawn 

 over the excellent macadam roads with which this section is 

 admirably supplied. Gloucester, on Cape Ann, is a city of 

 more than 25,000 people, which requires its portion of soil 

 products. It is known best as a port and market for the fishing 

 industry." 



In Essex County several locations have been suggested, and 

 it appears that public sentiment has been thoroughly 1 aroused, 

 by the Associated Boards of Trade and other organizations 

 throughout the entire county, in favor of the early establish- 

 ment of one agricultural school, and ultimately of at least two 

 such schools. 



A. Danvers has been suggested as a center for such a school. 

 The section about Danvers may be described as pre-eminently 

 devoted to market gardening. The district served might well 

 include Lynn, Marblehead, Salem, Peabody* Beverly and Dan- 

 vers itself. It is urged that day students living at home could 

 attend school at this center from points as far north as Tops- 

 field, Boxford, North Andover and even Haverhill, more cheaply 

 than they could board, and have margins of time for testing 

 daily at home the teachings of the school. 



