40 ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



N. J3. I make It a point to bring all my heifers in with their 

 first calves after pasturing time has commenced, so that the 

 green fodder may aid in swelling out their young udders ; which 

 process, followed for two or three first years, invariably makes a 

 good milker. 



Newbury Rock Farm, Septeinber 21th, 1832, 



No. IV. OF COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC MANU- 

 FACTURES. 



The Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, on Do- 

 mestic Manufactures, report — 



That they have attended, with pleasure, to the duties assigned 

 them. If it had ever been questioned, the observation of this 

 day would satisfy us that a good portion of the spirit of ingenuity 

 and enterprise which characterizes New Englanders, had fallen 

 on the sons and daughters of the County of Essex. 



Although the Society does not ofTer specific premiums for ar- 

 ticles manufactured by Incorporated Companies, it will always 

 afford the members great satisfaction to witness specimens of the 

 various products of the several factories in the County, and the 

 Committee to whom this subject is intrusted will not fail to no- 

 tice in a favorable manner, such articles as appear to deserve 

 commendation. As politicians, we do not wish to obtrude our 

 opinion, but as farmers v/e express but our honest conviction 

 when we say, that to encourage manufactures is to help our- 

 selves : that W'hatever conduces to the establishment and pro- 

 tection of these, conduces also to the prosperity of agriculture : 

 they are intimately and inseparably connected, and they must 

 flourish or decline together. ^¥herever there is a manufacturing 

 village or a manufacturing family, there is a home market, and 

 the experience of past years has proved that a home market is 

 the only one to be depended upon. Let manufacturing estab- 

 lishments be multiplied, and give stability to their operations by 

 preventing ruinous foreign competition, and farmers need never 



