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been selected from the country at large, regardless of expense, 

 by Professor Wilkinson, who is the steward as well as the 

 architect at Brookside, and who, having spent twelve years as 

 a teacher of practical and scientific agriculture, is perhaps as 

 well posted up in such matters as any man in the country. 



A description in detail of this mammoth building, with all its 

 appurtenances, would occupy more space than we have to de- 

 vote to it. Suffice it to say that no farmer who has not exam- 

 ined it, would, after visiting it, regret the time or expense in- 

 curred in so doing. 



True, there are few who would attempt to duplicate, on the 

 same scale, all that they may see there ; but the principle on 

 which it is constructed, in any or all its respective parts, is 

 adapted admirably to the wants of farmers who may desire to 

 erect new buildings or remodel old ones. 



STOCK. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Report of the Trustees. 



The course pursued by the trustees the past year varies so 

 little from the reports of the last ten years, that, after exami- 

 nation of their records, they arc of opinion that the best 

 mode of fulfilling their duty is, to return the two reports fol- 

 lowing, made by two gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, and 

 containing almost the entire transactions of the society for the 

 past year. 



The first report is that of committees of which the Hon. 

 R. C. Winthrop was chairman, on the subject of premiums to 

 be offered for distribution through the medium of the county 

 societies. 



Report of R. C. Winthrop. 



Agreeably to the suggestion of the President of the Middle- 

 sex County Society, the trustees of this society have oifered 



