87 

 FARMS. 



The Comrnittee on Farms have not been called upon 

 daring the present year to perform any duty, for the reason 

 that no man in all Worcester North had the courage or dis- 

 position to subject his premises and operations to their 

 scrutiny and comments. One farm was irregularly and very 

 late in the season offered for inspection. It would have 

 been visited had not the members of the Committee lived so 

 remote from each other, that arrangements for the purpose 

 could not be made in season. It is much to be regretted by 

 your Committee that they have not been called upon to per- 

 form a very pleasing as well as instructive duty, aside from 

 the good cheer with which they have heretofore been greeted, 

 as in no other way can information be so well obtained as 

 through an interchange of opinions, and the results of expe- 

 riments, in farm operations. The object of every man en- 

 gaged in agriculture is, or ought to be, to become a good 

 farmer. To attain this end he must not only study the laws 

 of production, but he must also understand how to dispose 

 of his products. He is but half of a farmer, as many of us 

 know by sad experience, who having raised good crops, is 

 unable to dispense them to his advantage. Neither do we . 

 look upon that man as an efficient and intelligent farmer, 

 who spends large sums of money upon costly buildings and 

 pseudo improvements, and who at the same time cannot 

 show a satisfactory balance sheet either present or prospec- 

 tive. Progress ought to be the aim of all, and to make ipQ- 

 provements yearly by increasing the productiveness of our 

 land, and at the same time doing many things to render home 

 more attractive and pleasant is progress of the right stamp. 

 He is the true farmer who discovers an abiding interest in 

 his vocation, who makes his business an efficient means of 

 support, and who by diligent perseverance and energy ac- 

 complishes something each year. Real scientific farming 

 may not be often found among us, but successful and pro- 

 fitable results ought to be every where the rule. It is de- 



