WORCESTER SOCIETY. 



a pleasant but a profitable employment. Far be it from us to 

 discourage it in any instance. That there has been a sort of 

 poultry fever, no one will attempt to deny, but a remedy has 

 been found in many cases in a process of depletion, which has 

 left the dabbler in hens and chickens so well satisfied with the 

 experiment in his own case, that his poultry yard has become 

 permanently empty. There have been fevers in other kinds of 

 business, and a person might as well resolve that he would own 

 no land, because there was once an eastern land fever, as to re- 

 solve that he would never keep a hen, because the cravings of 

 a disordered imagination have not been supplied in the matter 

 of poultry. The truth is, keeping poultry is a legitimate busi- 

 ness and one which may be made reasonably profitable. Let 

 our people be content with this, and feeding fowls, and raising 

 chickens, and selling eggs, will be reckoned, not only among 

 the most pleasant, but the most honorable employments. 



HENRY CHAPIN, Chairman. 



Agricultural Implements. -- 



The committee, (William S. Barton, Chairman,) say that a 

 hay-spreader was entered for exhibition, by Dr. Boylston, of 

 Princeton ; that from the examination they were able to make 

 of this machine, they are quite confident that a similar machine, 

 of less weighty of less complicated structure, and consequently of 

 less expense, would be a great desideratum among the farmers 

 of this country ; and that it is to be hoped that some enterpris- 

 ing New England mechanic may improve upon it. The ex- 

 pense of this machine they understand to be about seventy-five 

 dollars. 



Ward N. Boylstori's Statement. 

 I offer for exhibition a hay spreader, imported from England, 

 and the only one in this country. The machine runs crossways 

 of the swarths, and spreads the hay lighter, and more even than 

 can be done in the usual way ; moreover, it will shake it up much 

 faster than you can rake the same amount up with the horse rake. 



