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ESSEX AGRICULTURAL 

 EXHIBITION, 



AT TOPSFIELD, OCT. 2, 1822. 



In presenting to the public a statement of the doings of the 

 Society, the present year, the Trustees have to regret that 

 their annual exhibition of cattle, &c. did not equal their expec- 

 tations. The experiments on crops are in a good degree satis- 

 flictory. They had hoped that the liberal premiums offered, 

 added to the intrinsic importance of the subject, would have in- 

 duced much greater numbers of our husbandmen to exhibit the 

 evidences of agricultural improvements ; thus doing honour to 

 themselves and the county, and presenting successful exam- 

 ples for others to imitate. Nevertheless, the Trustees will con- 

 tinue to hope that the objects of the institution will receive in- 

 creased attention ; and that their disinterested efforts for the 

 improvement of the agriculture of the county will be seconded 

 by its substantial yeomanry ; and thus place its farniing inte- 

 rest at least on a par of excellence with that of any other coun- 

 ty in the Commonwealth. 



REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, 



No. I.— ON THE MANAGEMENT OF A FARM. 



The Committee appointed by the Trustees of the Essex Ag- 

 ricultural Society, to examine the claims for premium for th#^ 

 best Management of a Farm, submit the following 



