FIELD DAY AT WEST PEABODY, WEDNESDAY, 

 SEPT. 19, 1883. 



BY invitation of the West Peabody Farmers' Club, a 

 meeting was held this day at the Schoolhouse Hall in 

 West Peabody. The members of the Institute and their 

 friends began to assemble at 10 A. M., and were cordially 

 received by a committee of the Farmers' Club, consisting 

 of the President, Mr. Taylor, and Messrs. Upham, Hen- 

 derson, Viles and Farwell. The company was divided 

 into excursion parties, and under the direction of members 

 of the Club visited several places of interest in the fields 

 and woods. The farms of Messrs. Henry Saltonstall, 

 Francis H. Appleton, William P. Upham and Joseph 

 Henderson were visited, and every facility was extended 

 to examine these well laid-out grounds, extensive barns 

 filled with hay and other crops, fine breeds of stock, and 

 the various new and improved implements used in the 

 general management of the farm. 



These are in striking contrast with the system adopted 

 and the means employed in carrying on large farms some 

 fifty years ago. Similar improvements are perceptible in 

 all the other industries of this county. The agricultural 

 keeps pace with the mechanical, the commercial and manu- 

 facturing. 



A botanical ramble was organized under the direction of 

 Mr. John H. Sears, and many places of interest were visited. 



At one o'clock the various parties reassembled for 

 lunch, and at an hour and a half later the afternoon ses- 

 sion was held. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. After a few introductory 

 remarks, he called upon Mr. JOHN H. SEARS who gave, in 

 a very pleasant manner , the results of the botanical ramble 



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