124 BARNSTABLE SOCIETY, 



BARNSTABLE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Annual meeting and Fair of this Society was held on 

 Tuesday, October 28th, at Barnstable. Although the Society 

 is yet in its infancy, the display of articles of manufacture, of 

 fine animals, and of enthusiasm and zeal in the progress of the 

 cause of improving the agriculture and domestic industry of our 

 country, was such as to give a new impetus to the exertions of 

 the friends of the Society, and to warrant the hope that the 

 annual return of the day will do much to raise the standard of 

 agricultural enterprise in Barnstable County. Those who have 

 indulged in cavil at the ability of the old sand bank county to 

 produce the necessaries of life, will, we think, after the exhibi- 

 tion of the 28th, be disposed to drop the subject, and let the cit- 

 izens of Cape Cod continue to boast of their treasures hid in the 

 sands. 



The address before the Society, by the Rev. J. O. Choules, 

 was listened to by a large audience with much satisfaction. 

 The orator expatiated with much effect on the real dignity of 

 those employments which require active physical exertion, and 

 agriculture as the chief of these. He showed that the true 

 wealth of a country existed alone in its lands and agricultural 

 men. He held up the falsity of the notion, so generally preva- 

 lent, that it is honorable to live without labor, and insisted that 

 these erroneous impressions should be effectually corrected by 

 parents in the education of their children. The discourse was 

 interesting and instructive. 



The reports of the committees are not accompanied by any 

 statements of claimants of premiums. From the Report on Pro- 

 duce, (Obed Brooks, Jr., Chairman of the Committee.) it ap- 

 pears that there was awarded — 

 To Joseph Bodfish, for the greatest quantity of Indian corn 



on one acre, 79| bushels, ...... $8 



To Russell Hinckley, 2d premium, 7.5J bushels on an acre, 6 

 To Nathan Jenkins, for 17 bushels barley, on 35 rods of 



land, 4 



