Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: With an Appendix, Containing Reports of Delegates Appointed to Visit the County Exhibitions, and Also Returns of the Finances of the Agricultural Societies, for 1875 The results of this enterprise are already apparent, in the increased interest in similar undertakings at various points upon our coast, and the time will undoubtedly come when many broad acres will be added to the productive area of the Commonwealth. The operations of the Board have been continued as hereto fore, and they will be fully presented in the following pages. The plan of holding public meetings every year in various parts of the State, has commended itself to popular favor, and the meetings have been largely attended by intelligent and appreciative audiences. The country meeting, this year, was held in the city of Haverhill. 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.