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nicate and receive instruction, the purposes of the Society might 

 be more fully accomplished. It need not be imperative upon 

 all to attend; let those who do come, bring with them such 

 kindred spirits as are among their associates, and the meetings 

 might be made a school for mutual instruction. Whatever is 

 worth doing at all, is always worthy of being well done. Bear- 

 ing in mind, that nothing can be accomplished that is not com- 

 menced, I have ventured to propose the foregoing considerations, 

 to be acted on or not, as may be deemed expedient. If any, or 

 all of them, shall be found worthy the attention of the board, 

 at this, or any subsequent meeting, I shall feel that I have, in 

 some measure, contributed to the advancement of the interests 

 of the society. 



On Farms. 



Two farms were entered for premium, lying at two extremes 

 of the county, — one in Methuen, the other in Lynn, near the 

 line of Saugus. But they were not so far remote from each other 

 in place, as they were in the character of their soil^ and in their 

 whole general appearance. The one in Methuen, entered by 

 Leverett Bradley, is upon the Merrimack, and stretches along 

 nearly a mile upon the bank of the river. The soil is inclining to 

 sand. Probably there is not a rock upon the whole of it too large 

 to be turned out by the plough. The accompanying statement 

 of Mr. Bradley shows what is was a few years ago, and what it 

 now is. Probably no farm in the county was more attractive 

 in its appearance than was this, when your committee visited 

 it in July. About 70 acres of grass in one body, which, in the 

 opinion of the committee, would produce 2 tons of hay per acre, 

 on the average, and 50 acres of rye, at that time ready for the 

 harvest, adjoining, which could all be seen distinctly from Mr. 

 Bradley's house, without a tree, a shrub, or a stone, to intercept 

 the view, is a sight, rarely to be met with in the State, and, 

 probably, in the county has no parallel. Indeed, very few 

 farms can be found anywhere, which, for beauty of location, 

 can equal this. Your committee are of opinion, that Mr. Brad- 



