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suggestion or otherwise, to any towns by whicli this proposition shall 

 be adopted, and to furnish to such committees having charge of the 

 matter, the results of the experiments made on the State Farm at 

 Westborough, as reported from year to year by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture for distribution over the State ; and I hereby request the select- 

 men of all towns where this course shall be pursued, or the committees 

 so appointed, to notify me of the fact, when the Reports of the Board 

 of Agriculture will be forwarded to them. 

 Very cordially and truly. 



Your obedient servant, 



Chakles L. Flint, 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture'. 



In reply, I have received tlie following, being a report of the 

 Overseers of the Poor to the town of Princeton, viz. : — 



At the last March meeting, in 1856, the overseers of the poor were 

 constituted a committee to make such improvements in the manage- 

 ment of the pauper farm, with a view to its increased productiveness, 

 as they should deem for the best interest of the town. 



That there should be no embarrassment in the way of the commit- 

 tee in carrying out any measure they might adopt, in furtherance of 

 the design of their appointment, the town, with great liberality, 

 granted them unlimited jDOwers, as to the amount of expenditure. 

 The committee, feeling that whatever measures of improvement they 

 might take, were liable to failure, and having no desire to incur ex- 

 pense, without a reasonable prospect of an adequate return, were 

 cautious in their outlay, and have expended the sum of fifty and -^^-^ 

 dollars only. 



This sum has been expended for fertilizers, as follows : — 



1,287 lbs. of Peruvian Guano, .... $36 64 

 600 lbs. of De Burg's Phosphate of Lime, . 13 75 



$50 39 



These fertilizers have been applied to the land as hereafter described, 

 viz. : On the field east of the house, called the old house lot, was 

 spread broadcast, and ploughed in, three hundred pounds of guano to 

 the acre ; this was all the manure used upon this acre, except about 

 twenty bushels of wood ashes on one part, and about five hundred 

 pounds of plaster on another part. The ashes were used at the second 



