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exhibit, and it is among our private rules that if there chance to 

 appear two competitors whose design and execution of meritorious 

 labor is so evenly balanced as to cause hesitancy in a decision be- 

 tween them, the one who shows his to be but part of a well devised 

 system of husbandry shall have the preference. 



The committee respectfully ask all competitors on farms to re- 

 peruse carefully the very interesting and suggestive reports of the 

 former committee published by the Society, with the transactions of 

 1857 and 1858; to ponder upon the thoughts conveyed in the latter 

 half of the first report, and especially to dwell upon the matter of 

 pages 8 and 21, in that of last year. And the request is here re- 

 peated that an exact account of time be rendered, with a written 

 report, so that accurate knowledge of the cost of each one's work 

 may be obtained, and nothing lost sight of from any inadvertance or 

 forgetfulness on our part. 



In conformity with the thoughtful act of the former committee, 

 Mr. S. L. Goodale, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, was in- 

 vited to join in this examination of fiirms, but his home engagements 

 held him for the first three days, which were spent by your com- 

 mittee in Naples, Bridgton and Gray, accompanied by Samuel F. 

 Perley, Esq., who, from his store of agricultural knowledge and 

 experience in the two preceding years, as chairman of the first com- 

 mittee, was able to impart many valuable hints and suggestions. 



On the 23d of June your committee met at Church's, in Naples, 

 and, agreeably to invitation, spent a right pleasant hour before din- 

 ner, viewing Mr. Wm. B. "Windsor's carefully tended garden, nursery 

 and fields, situated on the east bank of the strait connecting Long 

 and Brandy ponds. Mr. W.'s farm is quite small, yet he was named 

 to the committee as the best farmer in Naples, and without a thought 

 of passing judgment upon any farm not properly presented, the 

 feeling that obtained among us was that shame could attach to that 

 farmer only who was a very long way behind Farmer Windsor, 



After noon the farm of Mr. Jarey Green, in Naples, was exam- 

 ined. Mr. G. was one of the competitors in the last term, and came 

 very close upon the second premium, as we were informed by Mr. 

 Perley. Now he proposes to clear rough land of trees and stones ; 

 to build stone wall ; to improve his pastures and buildings. His 

 soil is a gravelly loam, with stones, varying in size from a pebble 



