An Address Delivered at Their Tent, Before the Dorchester Agricultural Society

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered at Their Tent, Before the Dorchester Agricultural Society: And a Large Assemblage of the Citizens of Dorchester, and Some of the Adjoining Counties, at the Fourth Exhibition and Fair, Held in Cambridge, November 2, 1837It is more probably, in the unnatural practice, of stripping the blades, and cutting the tops, before the grain is fully matured, hard, and firm - under this general practical error, much is lost: and the present season, from my own observation, and the candid acknowledgment of many, a sacrifice of 20 per cent. At least of the corn of Dorchester, has been incurred, by this fashionable Operation: this practice is cousi dered essential to good economy -and to be per formed, at a precise period of the sun and moon's places in their respective orbits, and all, who are, unfortunately in the rear, from accident, or design, are denounced as slothful farmers.This force of prejudice, or, rather, this 'lex loci' is one of the most insuperable impediments to agri cultural improvement and in no instance, perhaps, more pernicious, than in the practice, in question - e that of fodder-saving.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.