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PLUMS. 



Orange Egg. — A large, beautiful fitiit — ripe in August. 



Americnn Yellow. — Beautiful shape, color blight yellow — ripe in August. 



Green Gage. — So well known that a description is unnecessary, it is the 

 most desirable plum known — ripe in August. 



Blue Magnum Bonum. — Size large, color blue ; excellent cooking — ^ripe 

 in September. 



Fall Gage. — A valuable fruit, good when tlie season is past for other 

 plmns — ripe in October. 



AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND FAIRS. 



The great benefits arising from agricultural societies are not 

 yet duly appreciated by the large portion of American farmers, 

 but every succeeding year produces a change in the agricultural 

 public. Through the benefits of associations, stock has been 

 improved and their diseases guarded against ; the quality of 

 nearly all sorts of grain has become superior, and the quantity 

 increased ; barren and sterile lands have become fertile, and 

 swamps that were once valueless have been drained and changed 

 to luxuriant gardens; in short, mankind have been benefited by 

 their effects. The great improvement that has taken place in 

 agriculture and the breeding of stock throughout England and 

 America within the last fifty years, is owing mainly to an inter- 

 change of knowledge and ex})erimeniing thereon. State agri- 

 cultural societies have been formed in nearly every portion of 

 the Union, and county societies, already numerous, are on the 

 increase. Many agricultural papers are now published in our 

 country, diffusing a vast amount of knowledge which is ob- 

 tained at a comparatively low price. Individuals who feel the 

 importance of becoming members of agricultural societies and 

 patronizing the press, by subscribing to and reading some one of 

 the many papers that are now published on the subject, will soon 

 feel and appreciate the benefits of being in possession of the ex- 

 perience of others. The premiums offered to those who excel 

 in productions from their farms and work-shops, are not the 

 only incentives to improvement; the meeting together once a 

 year, at the annual fair of the state and county societies, of so 

 large a number of farmers, mechanics, and artisans, anU there 

 beholding their products, incites in them a spirit of emulation and 

 rivalry which nothing else would produce, the result of which 

 is apparent in communities where the most attention has been 

 paid to the subject. The above are only a faw suggestions in 

 relation to a subject which will more or less interest every 

 reader of this little book and should the hints herein expressed 

 meet the approbation of the class for which it is designed it 

 will be no little satisfaction to the writer. 



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