Mr Hamlin, vvesiiHru, ncais 



Amos Carleton, Chelmsford, do 

 « " " St Michael 



Abel Wheeler, Lincoln, Ruggles 

 Ezra Ripley, Concord do and apples 



David Rogers, 'lewksbury, phiujs 

 James Eustis, S. Reading, nutmeg melons 



and apples 

 Cyrus Smith, Lincoln, water melons 

 Abel Husmer, Concord, do 



Abraham Prescott, Westford, do 

 Henry A. Prescott, " " 



Abel Wheeler, Lincoln, npples 



Amos Carleton, Chelmsford, " 



Joseph Read, Westford, " 



Zacheus Read, do Porter apples 



John Kimball, Littleton, " 



Jonas Warren, Stow, " 



Elijah Wood, Concord, " 



Daniel Bowker, Sudbury, " 



Abel Wheeler, Lincoln, " 



Simon Tuttle, Acton, " 



Daniel Weston, Lincoln, " 



Stephen Patch, Concord, " 



Daniel Bawker, Sudbury, ' 



Elijah Wood, Concord, " 



Moses Underwood, Lincoln, " 



Susannah Wheeler, Boxboro', " 

 Joseph Darby, Concord, apples 



Augustus Tuttle do " 



J. S. Woodbury, Acton, " 



Ephraim Adams, Chelmsford, " 

 Abraham Prescott, Westford, " 

 Francis Richardson, Billerica, « 

 Asa Hamlin, Westford, quinces 

 Asa Leland do " 



James Eustis, S. Reading, tomato 

 Solomon Keyes, Littleton, Carolina potatoes 

 Leonard Hoar, Lincoln, rohan do 



Thomas Crawford, Bedford, do do 



Thomas Bent, Sudbury, Philadel. pumpkins 

 H. G. Meriara, Tewksbury, squashes 



do do do French do 



Eph'm Adams, Chelmsford, do do 

 Francis Gleason, Marlboro', Pequot do 

 Abraham B. Handley, Acton, butter squash 

 Daniel Weston, Lincoln, mammoth do 

 Amos Carleton, Chelmsford, do 



Wm. H. White, Littleton, do 



Gregory Stone, Lincoln, crook neck do 

 Nathan Hartwell, Littleton, do do 



Obed Stearns, Bedford, 4 yr old do 



John W. Hayward, Bedford, marrow do 

 James P. Brown, Concord, do do 



John Kendall, Burlington, do do 



Will. D. Brown, Concord, Valparaiso do 

 John Moore, Concord, egg plant 

 H. C. Meriam, Tewksbury, early corn 



JVeat Slock. 

 Asa Lawrence, Groton, for best bull 

 James Hayward, Boxboro', next best 

 Stephen Morse, Marlboro', best bull calf 

 Mark Fay, Marlboro', next best 

 Charles Sweetser, Chelmsford, next best 

 David Blood, Pepperell, best o yrold steers 

 Ichabod Stow, Stow, best 2 yr old steers 

 Stephen Morse, Marlboro', next best 

 Elisha Gates, Marlboro', best yearling steers 

 Luther Gleason, Wayland, next best, 



50 Thomas Brooks, Stow, best heifer calf 

 50 Cyrus Hubbard, Concord, next best 

 tat Cultle. 



Ichabod Stow, Stow, best fat oxen 



Icliabod Stow, Stow, next best 



Milch Coios. 

 Horatio C. Meriam, Tewksbury, best. cow 

 Asa Melvin, Concord, next best 

 Otis Morse, Marlboro', next best 

 Horace Heard, Wayland, next best 

 Asa Brooks, Concord, best milch heifer 

 Mark Fay, Marlboro', next best 



fVorking Oxen. 

 Elijah Wood, jr.. Concord, 1st premium 



75 



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37 



1 50 

 1 25 

 37 

 37 

 37 

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75 



Jabez Gowing, do 2d do 



Daniel Shattuck, do 3d do 



Abel Hartwell, Lincoln, 4ih do 



Augustus Tuttle, Concord, 5th do 



Ploughing — Single Teams. 

 Francis A. Wheeler, Concord, 1st premium 



do 

 do 

 do 



do 

 do 

 do 



4 00 

 3 00 



10 00 

 6 00 



8 00 

 6 00 

 4 00 



3 00 



6 00 



4 00 



8 00 



7 00 

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5 00 

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Francis Wheeler, do 2d 



James Baker, Lincoln, 3d 



Joseph Smith, Concord, 4th 



Mr Tapley, , a gratuity of 



Double Teams. 

 George M. Barrett, Concord, 1st premium 

 Elijah Wood, do 2d 



Joshua Brown do 3d 



Cyrus Wheeler, do 4th 



Swine. 

 Isaac Smith, Waltham, for best boar pig 

 William Brown, Concord, next best 

 Abel Moore, Concord, best breeding sow- 

 Leonard Hoar, Lincoln, next best 

 John Nelson, Lexington, best pigs 

 Darius Hubbard, Concord, next best 



Farms. 

 Ell Rice, Marlboro', 1st premium 

 Simon Tuttle, Acton, 2d do 

 Stephen Howe, Marlboro', 3d do 



Jlpple Oi chard. 

 Zaccheus Reed, Westford, 1st premium 



fVhite Mulheriy Trees. 

 Sylvanus Howe, Townsend, 1st premium 

 Daniel S. Blood, Pepperell, 2d do 

 Joel Clark, Tewksbury, 3d do 



Horace Emery, Townsend, 4th do 



Inventions. 

 Jacob Pratt, Sherburne, for silk reel spinner 



and twister 

 Elijah Skelton, Bedford, corn sheller 

 Francis A. Wheeler, Concord, 1 plough, of 



Proiity & Mears' patent 

 Jonathan Bacon, Bedford, sash springs 

 Lorenzo Eaton, Concord, bureau 



Adams, Concord, stone drag, or 



10 00 

 8 00 

 (i 00 

 4 00 

 3 00 



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10 00 

 8 00 

 6 00 

 4 00 



3 00 



25 00 

 20 00 

 15 00 



15 00 



15 00 

 10 00 



8 00 

 7 00 



Jonathan Rice, Marlboro', best 2 yrold heifer 5 00 



Mr 



scow on wheels 



4 00 



Salt — It is estimated that there are' but about 

 12,000,000 bushels of salt annually used in the 

 United States. The English give fifteen millions 

 of bushels annually to their sheep alone. No won^ 

 der they have fine mutton and fine wool. 



iVlIUMS. 

 " Men are fond of certain lene's, upon no other evidence 

 bul respect and custom ; and think they must maintain them 

 or all is gone. Though they have never examined the ground 

 they stand on, nor have ever made them out to themselves,, 

 or can make them out to others."— Locie. 



This remark is applicable not to the understand- 

 ing alone, but to the continual practice of men iij 

 their every day pursuits. No occupation is exempt 

 from it, and upon none does this blind servility of 

 the mind exercise a wider or more pernicious influ- 

 ence than upon agriculture. 



Farmers, generally, are proverbial for prejudice, 

 and an obstinate adherence to old fashioned and 

 long tried methods of doing every thing ; and noth- 

 ing but the example of others, making the results 

 of their innovations palpably and undeniably bene- 

 ficial, will ever effect a change. This disinclina- 

 tion to change, or to adopt ' new fangled notions,' 

 as they are frequently termed, arises from several 

 causes ; foremost of which may be considered the 

 situation of farmers, retired, and beyond the influ- 

 ence of public spirit, and that enterprise and energy 

 of character which impels others to improvement, 

 Secondly, the want of means or capital to risk any 

 deviation from a long tried course, without the cer- 

 tainty of remuneration. And, lastly, ignorance, the 

 foster mother of prejudice and conceit, handed 

 down from one generation to another, nursing it- 

 self in its own blind self-sufficiency, and effectually, 

 excluding the light which science, reason and phi., 

 lanthropy are struggling to disseminate for the ben- 

 efit of others. 



It is, however, cause of gratification, that the at- 

 tention of farmers has at length, in some measure, 

 been aroused, and that they are beginning to shak? 

 off the apathy that has so long enchained them. For 

 the last three years, in many parts of our land, 

 there has been a steadily increasing and permanent 

 improvement in the art, which, considering the 

 small amount of light diffused, and the strength of 

 prejudice opposed to it, has scarcely a parallel ia 

 the annals of agriculture. It is true, in parts of the. 

 old world, the products of the soil have been in^ 

 creased to a most wonderful degree ; yet the im* 

 provement has been more gradual and limited in ' 

 its extent; confined to certain' districts orcounti< 

 where intelligence, united with ample means 

 experiment, guided the large proprietors in tli« 

 endeavors to improve their unproductive estat 

 In this country there has, been no stimulus of tliat , 

 kind to arouse the energies or to excite the ambi« I 

 tion of the humble cultivators of the soil. Content ||r 

 to live from hand to mouth, earning a mere subs; • 

 fence, our farmers have groped along in the sai 

 beaten track, for the last fifty years. But liglit 

 last 18 beginning to dawn upon their benighted t 

 ulties. The press — that powerful instrument 

 good or ill — is insinuating itself into every hamlet J 

 and cottage. Rail-roads and steamboats have rais- f 

 ed, as by an enchanter's wand, fertile valleys mK! i 

 pretty villages from the deep seclusion of reu; 

 distance, to the admiring eyes of men of taste an i , 

 science from the city. Intelligence and capital t 

 are at work in the country, developing its capabili- 

 ties and adding interest and beauty to its natural 

 charms. Science has invaded the territories ofig- 

 norance and simplicity, and lo ! the change. 



Yet the struggle has but commenced : although 

 in many favored parts th : genius of improvement 



