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been, and could generally be, obtained. He thought manures 

 should be applied near the surface, and be well decomposed. 



Mr. Grout, Mr. Bull, Mr. Lathrop, and others agreed with 

 the propositions of Mr. Hartwell relative to keeping manures 

 near the surface. 



Mr. Saltonstall, from the Committee on the Application of 

 Manures, presented the following 



K E P R T : 



The undersigned committee report that they have had sub- 

 mitted to them no returns of experiments with manures, made 

 in accordance with the rules established by this Board, for 

 premiums offered by the societies, except those which have 

 been returned to the Trustees of the Massachusetts Society. 



Through the courtesy of the president of that society, the 

 Hon. George W. Lyman, your committee have been furnished, 

 not only with those returns, but also with the able report of 

 their committee, together with the tabular statements carefully 

 arranged with the view of showing, in the most concise form, 

 the results of those experiments. 



It is deemed inexpedient by your committee to attempt to 

 re-arrange these returns, and they are, therefore, presented as 

 tabulated by the able committee of the Massachusetts Society, 

 together with the report to that society on the experiments of 

 the first series, which has been kindly presented to the Board 

 for publication. Leverett Saltonstall, 



Charles G. Davis, 

 John B. Moore, 



Committee. 



Boston, February 3, 1864. 



REPORT 



On the First Series of Experiments for the years 1860, 1861, and 1862. 



The Trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting 

 Agriculture having received the reports of the competitors for 

 premiums on the tilling and manuring of land for the years 

 1860, '61, and '62, have carefully examined them, and prepared 

 a tabular statement of them. 

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