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NORTH WALSHAM FAKMERs" CLUB. 



time and at so little cost. We are also encouraged to expect 

 the Irish merchants to visit our flax-markets so soon as we 

 can produce an article sufficiently attractive. They desire to 

 deal with us rather than with foreigners; and thus may we 

 reasonably anticipate, through this fresh source of commercial 

 intercourse^ a reciprocity of incalculable benefits; amongst 

 which none would be greater, I am persuaded, from observa- 

 tion, than the introduction of British husbandry into Ireland. 

 I will just observe that the most accurate information on agri- 

 culture might readily be obtained by deputations sent to 

 England, who would be hospitably received by our enlight- 

 ened and liberal agriculturists. The formation of numerous 

 Farmers' Clubs, similar to those in England, would also tend 

 greatly to promote the interests of agriculture in Ireland, par- 

 ticularly if correspondences were established between the Clubs 

 of both countries, which could easily be effected. 



Innumerable advantages have accrued from the establish- 

 ment of local societies in England. I have read many of their 

 interesting and valuable Reports. The North Walsham Farm- 

 ers' Club ranks not among the least in enterprise and utility, 

 of which many proofs appear in the neighbourhood. It would 

 be superfluous to enumerate more than are contained in the 

 following Report, abridged from the two Norwich papers^ which 

 it is necessary to record in order to carry out the design of this 

 work. 



NORTH WALSHAM FARMERS' CLUB. 



The annual meeting of this Society took place on Friday, 

 October 28th. In consequence of the interest excited through- 

 . out the county by the new Compound for Fattening Cattle, 

 and the attention w^hich has been lately drawn by Mr. J. 

 Warnes, jun., of Trimingham, to the Cultivation of Flax in 

 Norfolk, a large number of landowners and practical farmers 

 assembled at North Walsham, to attend this meeting of the 

 Club. 



The exhibition was held on the grounds of the Rev. W. F. 



