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Excerpt from Centennial Year (1792 1892): Of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture The period of twenty or more years past has been an epoch of centennials. Nor is it yet ended. Several of an interesting character are now approaching. One is at hand, the one hundredth anniversary of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. It differs from those preceding in being of State rather than national prestige, but is still of high rank and dignity. The society was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed March 7, 1792. Its long career of beneficial activity, the distinguished names borne upon its roll of membership, and its priority of date among societies of like character in this section of the country make it eminent among the State's chartered institutions and give it fame beyond the borders, a fame not exclusively its own as it pertains also to the Commonwealth. That this characterization is warranted it will be the aim of the following pages to show in a review of some of the main facts of the Society's history. Such an anniversary is necessarily retrospective in its suggestions. A summing up of past experiences will be a fitting commemoration of the old and beginning of the new century. For the society has both the resources and the disposition to pursue its mission and to avail itself of whatever opportunities the coming years shall bring for the advancement of the first and most indispensable of the useful arts. 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.