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[D.] 



Extract of a letter to the Commissioner of Agricultural Survey from 

 Henry W. Bishop, Esq., Lenox, late President of the Berkshire Ag- 

 ricultural Society, Jan. 1, 1838. 



" It has been very difficult to induce the farmers to make the desired 

 returns. Very few are able to do so except as to some particular crops, 

 which they consider of little moment. It will be different, I think, the 

 next season. The importance, as a matter of profit and loss, of a more 

 precise knowledge of the expenses and proceeds of the several branches 

 of their occupation, is seen and felt. Your visit here has done much 

 good. A spirit of inquiry has been awakened, and will keep awake, 

 till many useful things are learned. Results, hereafter, will be oftener 

 ascertained by measure and figures. Less will be left to loose, careless 

 estimation." 



Extract from a letter from an eminent farmer in Pittsfield, Berkshire 

 County, Sam'l D. Colt, Esq., dated 16 Feb, 1838. 



" Your visit to our county will be of incalculable benefit to the agri- 

 cultural interest. The encouragement with useful hints, with your 

 judicious advice thrown out from time to time in the hearing of our 

 agriculturists, will be stored up by our young farmers, who will prac- 

 tise upon them : and should you visit us next June, when our crops 

 are growing, presuming you have not closed your survey of the county, 

 I doubt not you will see some good effects, resulting from your labors 

 of last autumn." 



I hope I may be pardoned for citing these testimonials, which I do 

 most certainly not for any personal considerations, but simply to show 

 the encouragement, which the survey has met with in one of the most 

 agricultural sections of the state, yielding to none other in intelligence 

 and general improvement. 



