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feature in the public displays of the year. The immense crowds 

 that attended it, as well as the attendance on most of the 

 county fairs, gave evidence of increasing activity and interest 

 in the community. 



We have now throughout the country a pretty complete 

 system of agencies for the promotion of progress in agriculture, 

 from tlue Department of Agriculture at Washington, to the 

 State societies and organizations, and the county societies, to 

 say nothing of farmers' clubs and other town and local associa- 

 tions. It remains for the great body of intelligent farmers to 

 avail themselves of such efforts and such instrumentalities, as 

 the means of advancement in their calling, and the attainment 

 of the higliest degree of perfection, in the development of the 

 agricultural resources of the country. 



CHARLES L. FLINT, 



Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Boston, January 25, 1865. 



