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NEW ENGLAND FABMER. 



Dec. 



A THHEE-THOUSAND-DOLIiAK AMBBICAH' MERINO BUCK, 



OWNED AND KEPT BY ROI.I.IN GLEASON, BENSON, RUTLAND COUNTY, VERMONT —[3ee page 661.] 



Farmers' Clubs. There will probably be more 

 Farmers' Clubs ia operation in New England this 

 winter than ever before. The State Board of Ag- 

 riculture of Maine set the ball in motion in that 

 State pretty efifictually, last winter. The objections 

 that such associations frequently run out, or their 

 exercises run down, is entitled to less considera- 

 tion than it receives. We learn to walk by repeated 

 falls. "Up, and try it again," and avoid the mis- 

 step this time that caused the stumble before. The 

 new Board of Agriculture of New Hampshire are 



about to prepare notices which will be sent to dif- 

 ferent towns, in which some one or more persons 

 will be requested to move for the organization of 

 clubs in their respective towns. 



—The census takers have found a little paradise 

 on an island in Narragansett Bay. All the men 

 and all the women work ; the climate is good, the 

 soil grateful, and there is not a criminal, a pauper, 

 or a house- servant on the island. 



