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the project, which would improve approximately 1,100 acres of 

 land situated directly back of Salisbury Beach. The Board has 

 appointed a local drainage commission, and the project is held 

 up awaiting an amendment to chapter 252 of the General Laws. 

 It developed that the logical place for dikes and tidewater gates 

 necessary to carry out the project is situated over the line in the 

 State of New Hampshire. 



Wcweantic River Drainage District. 

 A petition was received from certain landowners in the town of 

 Carver asking aid in forming the Weweantic River Drainage 

 District. The Board viewed the area and found that this area 

 contained nearly 3,000 acres of cranberry bog dependent on the 

 Weweantic River for drainage. The local drainage commission 

 was appointed, the county commissioners of Plymouth County 

 have voted to finance the district to the extent of $10,000, and 

 the work of clearing out the Weweantic River is about to begin. 



Herring River Project. 

 Upon request of certain landowners in the town of Wellfleet, 

 the Drainage Board visited the area in that town, drained by the 

 Herring River. This is a case where considerable State money 

 has been expended in building a good dike with the necessary 

 tide-gates, and where the main river above the dike has grown 

 full of wild rice, grass and flag in such a way as to clog the 

 stream almost completely. The Board has not as yet received 

 a petition from the owners of land in this district. 



Nova Scotia Trip. 

 On June 23, 1921, Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Arthur 

 W. Gilbert, Professor Sidney B. Haskell, Director of the Ex- 

 periment Station at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, to- 

 gether with Messrs. Jewett and Smith of the Drainage Board, 

 went to Nova Scotia to stud}'' the great salt marsh areas which 

 have been drained, some of them, for more than one hundred 

 years. The party was shown the Great Canard Marsh and the' 

 Wellington Dike, the Wickwire Marsh, the extensive marsh areas 

 around Grand Pre, also the various marshes around Nappan. 

 The party was able to learn of the successes and failures of these 

 extensive drainage projects. One important feature impressed 

 itself upon all members of the party, and that was the absolute 



