Excerpt from Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, A. D. 1893-94, Vol. 1 And what forbids the Commonwealth, which from time im memorial has taken Agriculture under its protection, which has drawn annually so many thousands of dollars from its treasury for the destruction of insect pests, for sanitary purposes, for experimentation in sewage disposal, for a thousand things from which no return could ever be expected - what forbids the Com monwealth from lending to these Societies its fostering care, when it can so easily be demonstrated that every dollar thus spent will prove a paying investment? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.