174 MIDDLESEX SOCIETY. 



fectly clean to milk in. After I get my mixtures all together, 

 I plough it all over once in three or four weeks, to have it well 

 mixed, after which I throw it in heaps, where it remains 

 about a month, when it is overhauled. It remains a few weeks 

 more, and is then carted out where most needed. 



It is about three years since I commeziced making compost 

 manure in this way. Formerly, I let all this ley run into the 

 river, as I had never seen any one save it. I have no doubt, 

 that enough is annually wasted, to make from ten to twenty 

 thousand dollars' worth of manure in this State alone, simply 

 because the value of it for manure is not known. 



Sudbury, December Qth, 1849. 



Inventions. 



The committee, (Elijah Whiton, of Groton, chairman,) were 

 favorably impressed with the large collection and array of va- 

 rious agricultural articles and implements exhibited by Parker 

 & White, of Boston, all giving evidence of their deep interest 

 and desire to furnish every article needed, to aid and improve 

 agricultural labor. The committee notice, with especial favor, 

 an improvement in ploughs and grindstone arbor, with im- 

 proved rollers. They award Parker & White five dollars. 



Numerous articles for agricultural purposes, were also ex- 

 hibited by Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, many of them much 

 improved since the last exhibition, particularly the corn sheller, 

 vegetable cutter, ox yoke, and straw cutter. We award 

 them - - - - - - |5 00 



The committee were pleased to notice the hydraulic 

 churn, exhibited by John Andrews, of Woburn, 

 and award him - - - - - 2 00 



Smith's vertical gate was much approved of by the 



committee, and was awarded a gratuity of - 3 00 



Brown's meadow plough, was considered an im- 

 provement, and we award him - - 3 00 

 Vedder's water drawer, exhibited by L. Fay, would, 

 in other days, have been invaluable, and is now 

 so to those who prefer drawing water rather than 

 to pump it. A gratuity awarded of - - 2 00 



