Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture

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Excerpt from Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: With Returns of the Finances of the Agricultural Societies, for 1844The manner of caring for the material interests of the town may possibly contribute to its popularity in this re spect. We have about seventy miles of road and fifteen bridges, which are kept in repair at an annual average expense of about the policy of the town, in late years, having been to get the best. We have now eight substantial iron bridges, which number will be increased as the remaining wooden structures need replacing.The educational institutions of the town constitute a feature in which the inhabitants feel a commendable pride. We maintain a first class high school, two grammar schools, and seventeen primary and intermediate schools, with an attendance of something over 800 scholars, for the support of which we paid, in 1883, the sum of besides some thing more than for repairs of school buildings.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.