EXACT AND EXPERIMENTAL ASRICULTURE. Si 



home lot of two acres to what his predecessor obtained from th* 

 whole farm of eighty acres. 



Doubtless a great deal might be said in favor of the different 

 modes of cultivating every one of these productions, but I shall 

 leave these minutiae to other pens, and shall only urge every per- 

 son who has land, from four square rods, to one hundred acres, 

 to have his garden, to manure well, dig his ground light, put in 

 a good variety of seeds, and keep down the weeds, and he will 

 reap an ample reward. Other questions may involve the quan- 

 tity and quality of fruits, but so far as I have stated involves the 

 difference between something and nothing. 



I consider gardening as a profitable branch of agriculture, a 

 most innocent and rational amusement, an ornament to every 

 household establishment and an important part of the education 

 of every family. 



Jeremiah Spofford. 



J. W. P. odor ^ Secretary of the Essex Ag. Society. 



UPON EXACT AND EXPERIMENTAL AGRICUL- 



TURE. 



My friends, the Farmers of Essex County, will not be offend- 

 ed if I presume to urge them upon one or two points, which 1 

 deem of great importance to their agricultural improvements ; 

 and they will pardon a freedom and earnestness, which they 

 know spring wholly from an honest pride in the honor and a 

 strong desire for the success of their intelligent and enterprising 

 association. Though removed from their immediate vicinity, I am 

 not the less interested in whatever concerns a couaty, endeared 

 as the residence of my remote ancestors, who among the earliest 

 emigrants made it their resting place, and, with their descend- 

 ants for years, participated in its privileges and blessings. 



The first matter which I suggest to you is exactness in yoi*r 



agriculture. The neglect of this is almost universal, and to its 



great disgrace may be said to be characteristical of the farming 



profession. In my intimate intercourse with farmers for years, 



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