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in the old Bay State, the Trustees of the &quot; Massachusetts 

 Society for Promoting Agriculture,&quot; offered, among others, 

 the following premiums : . 



&quot; To the person who shall discover a cheap and effectual 

 method of destroying the canker-worm, a premium of $100, 

 or the society s Gold Medal.&quot; 



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&quot; For a heap of best compost manure from the common 

 materials of the farm for not less than 200 tons with a 

 description of the method, $50.&quot; 



&quot; For the most thri fty trees from seed, not less than 600, 

 and not less than at the rate of 2,400 per acre, of oak, ash, 

 elm, sugar-maple, beech, black and yellow birch, chestnut, 

 Walnut, or hickory, $25 ; or, if all of oak, $50 ; to be claimed 

 On or before October 1, 1806.&quot; 



&quot; For accurate analyses of the constituent parts of several 

 fertile soils, respectively so of poor soils, and how, by actual 

 experiment, to remedy the evils, so that it can be practiced 

 by common farmers, $50. And if it shall appear to the 

 satisfaction of the Trustees, that the improvement is more 

 than equal to the expense, then an additional $100,&quot; 



