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to mow the bushes, and after I got them to burn, I could not 

 get the moss to burn till I had loosened it up ; and when there 

 came a dry time, I used to burn what I could. I had this 

 process to repeat for several years. In the spring of 1847, I 

 planted it to potatoes, and in order to cover them, I had to take 

 a ditching spade and cut it into squares for nearly every hill ; 

 and it took from two to three hands, with prong hoes, to turn 

 the turf on to the potatoes. I planted it two years, and got but 

 very few potatoes. After digging the last crop, I leveled the 

 sods in the fall. The next spring, when the frost had got out 

 about three or four inches I harrowed, and sowed grass seed. 

 Previous to sowing the seed, I carried on about eighty horse 

 cart loads of compost. That season proved a dry and bad one 

 to sow grass seed, and hardly any of the seed lived. In the 

 winter of 1849, I carried on seventy-five loads more of com- 

 post, and in the spring, harrowed it, and sowed grass seed. In 

 the summer mowed it, and judged the crop to be about two 

 and a half tons. 

 Medfield, 1850. 



Milch Cows. 



There was no animal exhibited, of so extraordinary milking 

 properties, as to be entitled to the first premium. 



The second premium of eight dollars, is awarded to George 

 Thompson, of Milton, for his fine cow, nine years old. 



The third premium of six dollars, is awarded to Mrs. Mary 

 M. Richardson, of Medway, for her cow, ten years old. 



There were no other cows exhibited, where the owners had 

 conformed to the rules of the society, that were entitled (in the 

 opinion of the committee) to a premium, but in consideration 

 of some fine animals exhibited, and the great interest and ex- 

 pense their owners had taken to add to the show, they award 

 gratuities. 



The committee were much disappointed at not having seen 

 better specimens of milch cows at the exhibition. We know 

 there are many first rate cows in the county, and we hoped to 

 have seen them brought forward ; if they had been, the com- 



