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practise. It may be managed upon every farm with trifling 

 expense. Seed from forest and ornamental trees may be readily 

 gathered at the proper season, and planted and raised with 

 almost as much certainty of success as any of our ordinary 

 crops. 



Every soil is naturally adapted to the growth of particular 

 species of trees. This indication of nature should be con- 

 sulted, and trees growing naturally on similar soil in the neigh- 

 borhood should be selected. In the selection of forest seed 

 reference should always be had to the quickness of growth 

 and the value of product. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Horace Collamore. 



Produce. 



The soil of Plymouth County has generally been considered, 

 by our fortunate neighbors in more fertile counties, as a barren 

 waste, made up of "pond holes, gravel hills and sand banks;" 

 and the reports of the productions of our soil have not unfre- 

 quently elicited bold and stringent criticisms, intimating, in no 

 very courteous terms, that, by the duplicity of your commit- 

 tees, the crops have been exaggerated beyond all precedents in 

 agricultural statistics. We claim no exemption from human 

 fallibility, but we do claim for ourselves, our associates and 

 predecessors, the virtues of honest intention and incorruptible 

 integrity ; and we claim for the farmers of Plymouth County 

 a fair and honorable share of scientific skill in agricultual 

 affairs, conjoined to indomitable energy and persevering in- 

 dustry. 



Although our good or evil fortune has cast our lot and given 

 us an inheritance on this reputed sterile soil of the " Old Col- 

 ony," yet in this dispensation we see no cause to distrust the 

 wisdom and goodness of Providence, while, in accordance with 

 the divine injunction, we obtain by the "sweat of the brow" a 

 fair share of the staff of life, with some of the luxuries and ail 

 the necessaries requisite to render life endurable. 



