REPORTS, & 



ON FARMS. 



The Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, 

 on Farms, having attended to the duties assigned 

 them, respectfully submit the following Report : 



In offering premiums for the best cultivated farms, 

 the Essex Agricultural Society has tvi^o principal ob- 

 jects in view ; first, to induce individual farmers to 

 pay a more particular and systematic attention to the 

 manner of cultivating and improving their land, and 

 second, to collect a mass of valuable practical infor- 

 mation on agricultural subjects, by requiring that 

 each candidate for the premiums shall furnish a writ- 

 ten statement of the character of his farm, and his 

 method of tilling it, together with any improved 

 modes of cultivation which his experience may 

 have taught him. 



That these objects have been, -to a certain extent, 

 successfully attained, must be sufficiently obvious to 

 any one who will read the successive reports of this 

 Society, and who will compare the present state of 

 the farms in this County, with their condition several 

 years ago. At the same time, it is equally certain, 

 that the benefits contemplated by the Society, and 

 which might reasonably be expected, have been 

 but very partially accomplished. The committee on 

 farms have been compelled to regret, year after 



