60 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



F A K M S . 



ESSEX. 



Report of the Committee. 



The farm of Dr. George B. Loring, usually called the Pick- 

 mau Farm, situated in Salem, having been offered for the 

 society's premium, was visited by the committee on the 14th 

 of August and on the 5th of November. The illness of Dr. 

 Robinson, an important member of the committee, and a most 

 valuable member of tlie society, prevented his attendance. His 

 place was supplied, at his own request — and the committee were 

 happy in being favored with the attendance of Gen. William 

 Sutton as a substitute, at their first meeting. 



Dr. Loring has given the committee great pleasure by offer- 

 ing his farm for premium, and thus giving the society and the 

 public the benefit of his statement, constituting as it will the 

 most important part of this report. He is the only claimant 

 the present year. 



This noble farm is situated in South Salem. It touches Lynn 

 upon its south-west border, and adjoins the lands of the late 

 Judge Putnam on the same side, while the farm of the heirs of 

 the late E. H. Derby touch it on the west and north-west. 



As you enter the parlor of the farm-house — which was 

 occupied for some generations by the Pickman family — you 

 notice what ought to be seen in every farm-house, a finely 

 drawn plan of the farm, made from actual survey, by which we 

 learn that it contains some four hundred and thirty acres, but 

 more exactly as follows, viz. : — 



