282 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The first day was mainly spent in the entering and arranging 

 tlie articles for exhibition, and partakijig of an excellent dinner 

 ill the upper room of the hall, got up by the ladies for the 

 benefit of the society. 



Tiie second day tlic committees attended to their duties, and 

 after a dinner, to which several were invited, provided by the 

 hospitality of the president at his house, we marched to music 

 by the band into the upper room of the hall, where we listened 

 to an excellent and instructive address by the Hon. Mr. Bullock, 

 of "Worcester. Subject, the model state, and proper division of 

 labor. England, he considered the nearest to a perfect model 

 state, and Massachusetts next. After which we listened to 

 music and to sjieeches from persons present, in the midst of 

 which I left for the cars. 



In closing this report, I cannot refrain from acknowledging 

 the kind attentions of Mr. Peters and lady, at whose residence 

 I passed the nights of the 17th and 18th, and where I witnessed 

 some of the effects of thorougli farming, on a naturally rough 

 and stony soil, and must say that he thoroughly understands 

 the process of making the rough places plain and practices it also. 



Matthew Smith. 



WORCESTER. 



The annual exhibition of this society was held at tlie show- 

 grounds in the city of "Worcester. In the absence of cattle, the 

 attention of the visitor was necessarily turned to the collection 

 of articles of manufacture, and specimens of crops in the hall, 

 and to the display of horses on the ground. Of sheep and 

 swine, but few were exhibited. 



The samples of wheat placed before your delegate, from the 

 lots presented by John Brooks, Jr., of Princeton, J. C. Jaques, 

 of Worcester, D. F. Parmenter, of Ilolden, and T. B. Robinson, 

 of Barre, were remarkably fine. From the statements made, 

 it appears that from twenty-three and one-quarter to forty-two 

 bushels of this grain had been raised to the acre, and that much 

 attention is given to the introduction of the crop into the county. 

 As a staple of agriculture, no one can doubt its importance ; 



