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jects of importance among us in their own day. And 

 they indicate most creditable ability in those various 

 walks of life from which their authors have been taken. 

 But not in addresses alone has the agricultural 

 thought of this county been engaged for the last half 

 century. The example set by the distinguished first 

 president, has been followed to this day. The practical 

 essays, more or less elaborate, of Timothy Pickering, 

 numbering in all nearly two hundred, form a part of the 

 most valuable literature of the Society. In this work 

 he had many followers. The " statements," as they were 

 called, of farmers who entered their stock and crops for 

 premium, are highly interesting and instructive. And 

 the reports of committees, with these " statements " and 

 the addresses, composing nearly all there is of the early 

 published transactions, constitute a reliable and valuable 

 fund of information. Among these papers may be found 

 the admirable Farm Report of Henry Colman, in 1830 — 

 the commencemeut of that series of papers written by 

 him on farm stock, on corn, on exact and experimental 

 agriculture, on swine, on the dairy, on agricultural pub- 

 lications, on cutting and preparing feed, on Essex county 

 agriculture, for which the farmers of this county will 

 always hold his name in grateful remembrance. The 

 reports upon the mulberry tree and silk culture, com- 

 mencing with Edward Mosely's paper in 1830, contain- 

 ing Gardiner B. Perry's long and eLiborate essay on the 

 same subject in 1831, Mr. Mosely's second essay in 

 1833, Mr. Perry's again in 1834, and the report of Tem- 

 ple Cutler in 1840, form an interesting chapter in the 

 history of that curious attempt to introduce Italian in- 

 dustry upon the soil of New England. The writings up- 

 on cattle by Hectar Coffin, who in 1830 declared that 



