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hills, which are interspersed with huge boulders. This 

 park is approached by electric cars from two sides, affording 

 a most delightful retreat for the public and of easy access. 

 A good parent is and ought to be proud of the success of 

 its children, without jealousies or heart-burning, so, we the 

 Essex Agricultural Society, feel rejoiced at the success and 

 prosperity of our children, and bid them God speed. 



Benjamin P. Ware, delegate. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FARMS. 



The only entry for the premium on farms was made by 

 Mr. Oliver Roberts of Danvers. His statement of the im- 

 provements and crops of the farm is attached as a part of 

 this report. And from careful observation and investiga- 

 tion made by the committee at visits made in June and 

 October, we feel sure that his statements are not over- 

 drawn. Mr. Roberts with his two sons, have given evi- 

 dence of their persistent energy and industry, and have 

 shown what may be done on an ordinary small farm of 

 forty acres, with no unusual natural advantages, and the 

 larger half of what had been considered waste land, thir- 

 teen acres of which was low, wet land yielding only coarse 

 meadow grass of little or no value, and ten acres of old 

 pasture mainly covered with rocks, bushes and some trees, 

 and the balance of eighteen acres of old, worn out tillage 

 land, that had been skinned and starved immemorially, by 

 short tenantcies, and in return had starved out the tenants, 

 as they deserved, so that it had become a by-word in the 

 neighborhood, that poverty and starvation was the inevita- 

 ble fate of all tenants who had ever occupied the farm. 

 And it was confidently predicted by all of the neighbors 

 that that would be the result of Mr. Roberts' purchase of it. 



Mark the change. The pasture land has been cleared 



