250 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



When the cupola is finished, the trimmings finished, and the inside 

 finished, three hundred dollars. 



And the balance of two hundred and twenty-five dollars within thirty 

 days of the time when the whole job is completed, and so delivered up 

 to the entire satisfaction of the said committee. 



In witness whereof the parties have hereunto set their hands, on the day 

 and year above written. 



George B. Loring, 

 Charles P. Preston, 

 R. A. Merriam, 



Committee. 



Witness, Arthur M. Merriam. 



John H. Potter. 



The work was done in a thoroughly satisfactory manner by 

 Mr. Potter. 



The lumber used by him was as follows : square timber for 

 frame, mostly pine, obtained in Boxford, 18,000 feet. The 

 scaffold beams, between the posts, are spruce ; joists in the 

 frame, 5,000 feet ; hemlock boards, 13,000 feet ; spruce for 

 cattle and horse stalls, 2,000 feet ; pine for finish, 2,500 feet ; 

 shingles, 27,000 ; spruce clapboards, rough, four feet long, 

 2,500 ; pine plank for flooring, 5,000 feet. 



In addition to the contract price of eleven hundred and 

 twenty-five dollars, the committee have paid Mr. Potter one 

 hundred and twenty-five dollars and five cents, for removing 

 and repairing a portion of the old barn, and altering the 

 finish of the new one. They have also paid twenty dollars 

 for a weather-vane ; six dollars for drawing plans, etc. ; and 

 eight dollars for posts to cellar. There remains on hand of the 

 thirteen hundred and twenty-seven dollars appropriated by the 

 society, a balance of forty-two dollars and seventy cents. It is 

 important that an open shed costing one hundred dollars, 

 according to Mr. Potter's estimates, should be constructed 

 running from the new barn to the removed portion of the old 

 one ; and the committee would recommend that an appropria- 

 tion of fifty dollars be made for this purpose. 



Geo. B. Loring, Chairman. 



