34 THE HISTORY OF THE 



Society had exerted throughout the County was the rec- 

 ord of local clubs and societies which had sprung into 

 being in many localities, and were closely affiliated with 

 the venerable Society in spirit and method. The Ames- 

 bury and Salisbury Agricultural Association had been 

 organized in April, 1856; the West Newbury Farmers' 

 Club in December, 1856; the Ipswich Fruit Growers' 

 Association in September, 1866; the North Andover 

 Farmers' and Mechanics' Club in March, 1878; the An- 

 dover Farmers' Club in November, 1879. There were 

 also the Houghton Agricultural Society of Lynn, the 

 Marblehead and Swampscott Farmers' Club, the Brad- 

 ford Farmers' and Mechanics' Association, farmers' clubs 

 in Rowley, Georgetown, Topsfield, West Peabody and 

 Wenham. The farmers' instinct for clubs and societies 

 being still unsatisfied, it was reported in 1886, that during 

 that year Granges of Patrons of Husbandry had been 

 organized in Amesbury, North Andover and Ipswich. 



Gratifying interest in tree-culture and forestry was 

 apparent. Major Ben : Perley Poore made the Report in 

 1883, reviewing the failures of the past, but urging to 

 constant endeavor to replace the fast disappearing forests. 

 His own planting at Indian Hill farm had been so suc- 

 cessful that the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion 

 of Agriculture awarded him a premium of a thousand 

 dollars for his twenty acres of oak, chestnut, hickory, 

 locust, fir and pine, on which every tree had been planted 

 by his own hand. The Society had a Committee on Orna- 

 mental and Wayside Trees as well. 



At the Cattle Shows a sulky plough was shown for 

 the first time in 1881. In the following year a trial of 

 two or three ploughs was made in a very rough and stony 

 field, with very satisfactory result. After the trial was 

 over the committee requested Mr. Richard S. Jaques, a 

 veteran ploughman, who had taken more first premiums 

 than any other member of the Society, to turn one furrow 

 with his "Lion" plough and four-ox team in direct com- 



