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4. Are your pastures infested with small bushes ? 



5. What is the best mode of destroying them? 



6. Docs the same treatment answer for the destruction of all kinds of 

 bushes ? 



7. Do you plough any of your pasture lands ? and if so, what is 

 your subsequent treatment and what are the results ? 



8. Do your pastures abound in stones, so as to render ploughing 

 impracticable? and if so, what treatment do you propose? 



9. Do you apply manures to your pastures ? and if so, state the kinds, 

 the quantities, the mode of application, and the results. 



10. Do sheep, in your opinion, improve pasture lands? and if so. 

 what kind of land is most improved by them ? 



11. Do sheep exterminate any injurious weeds or bushes from your 

 pastures ? and if so, mention the kind or kinds. 



12. Does the shrub called laurel or lamb-kill, abound in your pas- 

 tures ? if so, what is the best mode of eradication ? 



13. Do you use plaster ? if so, in what quantity per acre, at what 

 season, on what kind of land, and with what results ? 



14. If you have used dry ashes, please state in what quantities, your 

 mode of application, the kind of soil, and the result ? 



15. Please state the same with regard to leached ashes. 



1 G. Do your cattle remain in your pastures over night, or do you 

 yard them ? 



17. Do your cows seek for bones and chew them? 



18. At what time in spring do you turn your sheep to pasture ? 



19. At what time your cattle ? 



20. How late in autumn do your sheep remain at pasture ? 



21. Your cattle also ? 



22. Are your sheep or cattle suffered to roam over your pastures late 

 in autumn and in winter ? 



23. Are your pasture lands all dry, or partly low and wet ? 



24. If wet, can they be improved by drainage ? 



25. If you have any plans for improving your pastures, or any sug- 

 gestions to offer, please state them. 



O. C. Felton, 



PAOLI LATHROr, 



Wm. G. Lewis, 

 Boston, March 1, 1859. Committee of the Board. 



