REPORTS OF DELEGATES 



APPOINTED TO VISIT THE 



AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS 



ESSEX. 



The forty-fourth annual festival of the Essex County Agri- 

 cultural Society, was held at the beautiful village of South 

 Danvers on the 24tli and 25th days of September — an exhibition 

 every way worthy of the county — one of the oldest, most enter- 

 prising and populous in the State, and in manufactures and 

 agricultural wealth, sustaining a high position. The weather 

 was all that could be desired — beautiful autumnal days. As 

 the delegate of the State Board I esteemed it a great privilege 

 to be present ; was welcomed very cordially, receiving every 

 attention and courtesy, and having every facility furnished 

 me for seeing and examining the exhibition in all its depart- 

 mients. 



This county, which is the third in wealth and population in 

 the State, containing five large cities, and many large towns 

 and thriving villages, has but one agricultural society, while 

 there are in six other counties, five of which are much less in 

 wealth and population, from two to five societies each, thus 

 dividing, and in a great measure destroying the agricultural 

 interest. 



This society has no permanent location, but holds its fairs in 

 different sections of the county, thereby securing a greater 

 attendance, accommodating every part of the county, and con- 

 gregating the herds, flocks and products of a much larger 

 territory than most societies. If it is owing to this itinerant 

 system that the farmers of this county are united in one society, 



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