structive management among small farmers, as among those who pur- 

 sue agriculture upon an extensive scale. 



He commenced his survey in the county of Essex. He visited 

 every town in this county more than once, and at the end of Sep- 

 tember he went into the county of Berkshire. He attended the 

 Cattle Shows in Essex and in Berkshire ; and continued in the 

 latter county, with the exception of an excursion into Hampshire 

 county, until the last of November, when the snow rendered the 

 out-door prosecution of his labors impracticable. In October he 

 went, as stated above, into Hampshire county, for the purpose of 

 attending the Cattle Show and Exhibition at Northampton ; and 

 particularly that he might ascertain the precise condition and prospects 

 of the Silk culture and manufacture, and the culture of Beets for 

 sugar in that vicinity ; two matters in respect to which the public 

 curiosity is excited ; and which, from the direct encouragement 

 promised by the laws of the Commonwealth, essentially concern the 

 public interest. Besides these he has made visits to several other 

 towns in the Commonwealth, for the prosecution of his inquiries^ 

 as they came incidentally in his way. 



He has applied himself to every principal object of agricultural 

 inquiry that has suggested itself, or been pointed out to him ; and 

 personally inspected every considerable improvement in cultivation, 

 in reclaiming land, in seeds, in crops, in farm buildings, in farming 

 utensils, and in live stock, of which he could get any information, 

 wherever he has been. 



In the course of his journeys likewise, he has had as many in- 

 quiries put to him as he has put to others. He has by request 

 delivered several public addresses ; and in many towns and villages, 

 considerable numbers of the farmers have invited him to meet them, 

 of which opportunities he has gladly availed himself to get and to 

 give information. The information which he has sought to commu- 

 nicate has been wholly practical and experimental. His visits have 

 in such cases been welcomed ; and in evidence of their supposed 

 utility, he begs leave to submit to the Committee an extract of a 

 letter received by him from a highly intelligent farmer in Berkshire, 

 late President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society.*^ 



" Appendix !'■ 



