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planations for the Information of the Farmers of the 

 County," without mention of an address, 33 pages, was 

 pubHshed in 1826. 



In 1826, at South Danvers, there was no address, and 

 the only report was that in the columns of the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, and the report of the Fair at Newbury in 

 1827, at which there was no address, was published in 

 the same paper. 



Col. Pickering made his last Address at West Newbury 

 in 1828, and the Society published it, with reports, pre- 

 miums, list of members, a pamphlet of 77 pages, in April, 

 1829. 



There was no address in 1829 at Haverhill, but a full 

 report, with "Hints addressed to the Farmers of Essex 

 County," an 88 page pamphlet, was issued in 1830. From 

 this date the Publications were issued regularly for many 

 years, always containing the Annual Address in full. 

 The title, "Transactions of the Essex Agricultural So- 

 ciety," first appeared in 1840. 



