The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-28
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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1926.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1926.
CATTLE SHows.-The utility Of Agricultural
Societies is becoming every day more appa-
rent. However questionable the benefits re-
sulting from them may have been in the minds
of some, at the time Of their Institution in this
country, doubts are no longer entertained :
expeNence has put to flight the objections
raised by the timid adherents to the customs
and habits of our fathers actual experiment
has silenced alike the opposition of the opin-
ionative and the stiff prejudices of the object
ors to all innovation. By means of these
County associations, the agriculturalists are
annually drawn together, for the express pur-
pose OF comforting with each other upon the
means which have been adopted ,by each in
tue various concerns of farming, for pointing
out the objections to one mode of procedure.
and the recommendations Of another. Speci-
mems Of crops are produced, and the mode Of
culture in raising them Observation-Disclosures
OF implements of husbandry are exhibited.
and the various modes of raising and of work.
ing cattle' with their advantages and disad-
vantases, particularly noticed. In fine, there
is scarcely any branch of agricultural pursuits,
on which some new and useful ideas are NOT
disseminated in the community by means Of
these yearly meetings.
The improvement which has taken place
IN this county since the formation of our So
ciety for the promotion of agriculture and ma
nufactures, in the particular Of neat cattle. is
not only visible but almost surprising. few
years ago a calf six weeks old was thought 10
be well sold at five dollars, and a COW of four
years, at twenty-five. Now it is not un-
common to receive fifteen for the former and
nifty or even more for the latter. A GENTLE
man CT our acquaintance sold last week fin.
calf OF the shove age for SEQ, and very seri-
ously observed at the time that he gave ii
away. This increase in the value of stock is
owing to the peculiar good qualities Of the
breed, which is imported from England. I'm
der the auspices of the society it has been
spread throughout the county, so that now
scarcely farmer of any substance is to be
found in it, who has not portion of this kind
OF stock. At our cattle shows the pens are
filled with it, exhibiting to the stranger who
has the least taste for these things, sight
well worth days journey to behold.
The influence of our association has been
equally felt in many other particulars. An
emulation among our farmers has been excited.
which spurs them on to spare no pains, and
to leave no experiment untried, which has
any prospect of success. They have laid
aside those cautious doubts which forever pa
ralize exertion, and boldly put their hand TO
the trial. What the consequence has been
any one will perceive, who travels through
our county. He will perceive it in the high
state ofcultivation which every where meets
his eye, in the abundance Of the crops, in the
neatness of husbandry, in the large flocks Of
cattle, in the excellence OF, the dairy, and in
the general air of thriftiness which every where
pervades the face of the country.