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ing only behind Middlesex; in other esculent vegetables, |40,000. 

 In hay, she stands far in advance of her sister counties, yielding 

 annually more than $1,100,000; in fruits, about $120,000. and, 

 in slaughtered beef, nearly $50,000. So that, when we have 

 set aside the stock, which is permanent, our county furnishes 

 an annual production of rising $2,500,000, from her hills and 

 valleys, and this is probably only an approximation to the re- 

 sult which more accurate returns would furnish. 



What has produced, what has stimulated, this labor of men, 

 and these crops of the earth 7 The same official tables shall 

 instruct us with the answer. In the county of Worcester, say 

 they, the annual production of the manufactured articles, spec- 

 ified in the returns, exceeds fifteen millions of dollars, and, as 

 nearly as I can reason upon the data furnished, they support 

 irom forty to fifty thousand ^exsons, having no direct connec- 

 tion with labor on the farm. Have you thought of it? The 

 county is up to about $2,500,000 in her cotton products, second 

 only to the county of Lowell. In woolens, she goes up nearly 

 to $4,000,000, about one half of all the products of the State; 

 all these, of course, far below the reality, for our statistics are 

 incomplete, and seem likely ever to be so. Let me pass briefly 

 ever some other items in our tables. Machinery, about $500,- 

 000 ; cards, exceeding all the State beside ; cars and coaches, 

 nearly $350,000, one quarter of the whole ; chairs and cabinet 

 ware, $400,000, ahead of all ; boots and shoes, almost 3,000,000 ; 

 straws and palm leaf, about $350,000, — 4000 females plying 

 their busy fingers, — but I forbear. The grand total I have 

 given, and it is a mountain of facts. 



Is there no harmony here 7 The two great divisions have 

 gone onward together, each offering a market to the other, and 

 both — agriculture and manufactures — uniting to develop and re- 

 ward human labor. These are some of their harmonious re- 

 sults. They have started thousands in the great race of life, 

 organized families to methodize the enterprising impulses of the 

 heart of man, erected three church spires in every village, 

 founded a thousand schools, opened accessible marts for trade 

 and exchange, diffused graces, comforts, and charities at home, 

 and transmitted, to all parts of our Union, influences that shall 



