RECLAIMING SWAMP LANDS. 



77 



Balance, 



$955 15 



This piece of pasture land was as rough as any on the farm, 

 being mostly overgrown with alders and birches ; the balance 

 with huckleberry bushes, and all more or less covered with 

 stone, some one hundred and fifty being necessarily removed by 

 blasting. It is now all under-drained with stone drains, three 

 and a half feet below the surface and about eighty rods in 

 extent. 



RECLAIMING SWAMP LANDS. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of I. V. Adams. 

 The acre of improved meadow which I enter for premium, is 

 a part of a seven acre lot which I purchased in 1864, at a cost 

 of seventeen dollars per acre. It is also a part of Little Cedar 

 Swamp, a tract of two hundred acres of swamp land upon 

 which certain improvements were made in 1862-3 by a board 

 of commissioners appointed by the superior court of Middlesex 



