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PLYMOUTH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



From the Reports of the Committees of this Society, and the 

 Statements accompanying the same, the following selections 

 are made. 



On Improvements. 



It is not to be expected of an association, more than of an in- 

 dividual, that every project formed will be carried to a full and 

 successful issue. We have failed of accomplishing numerous 

 important objects, to which we have invited the attention of 

 farmers, and encouraged their cooperation in offers of liberal 

 premiums. We early urged them, in the absence of stones, to 

 plant hedges for the future protection of their fields ; we also 

 offered liberal encouragements to the planting of forest trees 

 suitable for ship timber. These projects have hitherto been 

 attended with no visible success. Nor have the inducements 

 held out to border the highways with fruit, and shade-trees, 

 called out all the exertion that was desired, but in several towns 

 in the county, it is perceived, with pleasure, that something 

 of this useful and ornamental work is every year in pro- 

 gress. 



The efforts of the Society to produce an improved culture of 

 the annual plants, have been followed with very satisfactory 

 results, have been even more successful than the most ardent 

 members dared expect. Some of our grain and root crops are 

 now nearly double what they were before the existence of the 

 society, not exclusively with competitors for premiums, but 

 generally through the county. Few of our farmers now are 

 chargeable with the fault, which was common thirty years ago, 

 of planting and tilling fields not prepared to produce crops equal 

 in value to the labor bestowed. We have witnessed some in- 

 stances of remarkable success in the culture of particular crops, — 



