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prizes, and a considerable larger number at the grange s 

 hall. Both displays have been reported to me as being fine. 



1 think we here see again proof of the great value to the 

 individual of organized effort, and also the same to the public. 



In union there certainly is strength. 



This is certainly a lesson for our own members to ever 

 have before them in their work, and in it lies every possi- 

 bility for success. 



Our Fairs, our Institutes, our usefulness to our State 

 Board of Agriculture, to our Agricultural College and Exper- 

 iment stations, and their value to us as agriculturists, de- 

 pends directly upon our members working together for 

 good results in all these directions. 



We also have in our county and promoting the object of 

 our society : — Farmer's Clubs, or Horticultural and Land- 

 scape Improvement Societies, in Lynn, Salem, Marblehead 

 and Swampscott, Gloucester, Beverly, North Andover, West 

 Peabody, Rowley, West Newbury and Danvers, with prob- 

 ably others that are at present unknown to the writer, and 

 not on record at office of the State Board of Agriculture. 



The Essex County Poultry Association also exists and at 

 one time was active when there were special demands for 

 its work. 



But the granges that exhibited at Lawrence set us an 

 example at the Fair of 1891 in Lawrence, by which our 

 society should profit through our members. 



Let a noble effort be made next year, in all directions, to 

 fill our halls with the products of the farms from all over 

 Essex County ; let each locality send, by united and indi- 

 vidual effort, teams filled with such as we would attract by 

 our premium list; and in the same proportion let our j)eople 

 flock together to renew and enlarge that useful acquain- 

 tance-ship which is peculiarly intimate among the agricul- 

 turists of old Essex. 



We should indeed extend our congratulations to our 

 members of the Granges who succeeded so well this year, 

 and commend their example of the value of united action 

 to attain good results to our members in general. 



