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 FARMS. 



Committee. — Ezra Kendall, Sterling; Joel Hayward, AsKby; 

 Abel F. Adams, Fitchburg. 



The farm of George Chandler, of Shirley, was duly 

 entered with the Secretary of the Worcester North Agri- 

 cultural Society, for inspection and premium. And this 

 being the only one, among the many embraced in this 

 large district of farming community, rendered the task 

 of your Committee very light. 



We found Mr. Chandler's farm, consisting of about 

 forty acres, in a condition which it is desirable that all 

 farms should be; that is, the whole area cultivated, and 

 in a pretty high state of improvement, showing that he 

 has discarded the old idea that a farm should consist of 

 a given number of acres, "suitably divided into mowing, 

 pasturing and tillage," and as such to remain, and to be 

 used for no other purpose. From this small area of land 

 his receipts were $2357,77, and his expenditures $1587,- 

 49, leaving a balance of $770,28, as his clear income. 

 As his statement of his transactions accompanies this 

 report, it is not necessary to go into details of his opera- 

 tions here, and we need only to say, that we considered 

 him well entitled to the premium offered by the Society 

 for the best farm, and as being managed in a neat and 

 thorough manner, leaving no unproductive and unsight- 

 ly places to mar and disfigure its surface. 



Your Committee adopted a plan, which it is to be 

 hoped will be more fully carried out by their successors. 

 It was to visit such friends of our Society as we sup- 

 posed would be gratified in submitting their farms to 



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