Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-05-04

determined only by personal inspection Of
the whole.
Another consideration which occurs TO your
Committee in favor of general view, arises
from the impracticability of the attendance of
a great portion of the Society and of the CON-
munity, to obtain information, and imbibe
spirit of enterprise, at our annual exhibition.
BY sending missionaries among them, their
false doctrines, and erroneous practices might
be corrected. The zeal and devotedness of
the Society for the objects of their association
would be more strikingly manifested and more
extensively diffused; and the moral effect of a
domicilary visit would, in view of the Com
mittee, be impressive, salutary and lasting.
To accomplish these desirable results, it. is
recommended by your Committee that the
County be divided into four districts-that a
Committee of three members Of the Society be
appointed, at the annual meeting, in each
whose business it shall be to inspect the farms
and manufactures in the towns in said dis
trict in which there shall reside ten or more
members of the Society, at the request of a
Trustee in such town, between the 25th day
of LInly and the 18th day of September.
That the District Committees shall report at
the first meeting of the Society thereafter, the
general state of agriculture, and household
and domestic manufactures, and the names OF
the persons who particularly excel in the
management Of their whole establishment, or
IN any branch oftheir business.
That in each subsequent year The Trustees
of the Society shall be empowered to offer a
E premium of fifty dollars, to be lwalded by the
viewing Committee in each district, for the
best cultivated and most productive farms,
and best regulated manufacturing establish
ment, to be divided at the discretion Of the
Committee: and that the Committee on nre-
NUNS be requested to add to this sum an O.
quail proportion Of the money generously grant
ed by the Trustees of the Massachusetts or;
cultural Society for the encouragement of ss-
ricuitufe in such district, should he Trustee
OF said Society authorize them theeto.
As general enterprise and implement arc
The great benefits to be derived frouia part;cu-
lar mspection,the Committees will lot consid-
or thei: duties as limited to the memIe,s of tae
society, but will notice merit where1eIit may
be found. For this purpose it is rec nmend-
ed that the Committee be authorisedto award
the premiums to the most deserving, although
not member, with the equal deduction in
such case provided.
The Committee have not thought il n,ces.
sary to propose pecuniary consideration to
induce gentlemen to engage in such honorable
and pleasing service, but should thew be stb-
jected to expenditure of money in the ds-
charce Of their duty, they recommend that II
b. refunded by the Society.
As the Society INDUCES grateful sense Of
its obligations to the Legislature for its nj.
ronage and pecuniary support, the COMMITTEE
are of opinion that it would be both decord,s
and satisfactory that copy of each report Be-
transmitted to the Secretary of the Comma.
wealth for their inspection.
Il O. FlsKE for the Committee.
| Worcester, April IA, 1925.