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It is a fact more remarkable than creditable, that so liberal an 

 offer drew forth but a single Essay, — this however, was deemed sat- 

 isfactory by. the awarding committee, S. F. Perley, President of 

 the Board of Agriculture, and J. F. Anderson, President of the 

 Maine State Agricultural Society, (Mr. Brown, who had been 

 named chairman during his absence, having declined to act,) and 

 they awarded to it the premium offered. 



This Essay is here published. 



