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the rear of my barn during the coming Winter, and do as 

 much of it as possible upon the farm. 



Since writing the foregoing, after having visited many of 

 the most noted Ayrshire herds, I bought two heifers in miliv, 

 whose blood seemed to be most remarkable for its milking 

 properties. 



The Committee award to Mr Appleton, for his Farm in West 

 Peabody, the first premium of Thirty Dollars and diploma. 



Committee — Geo. B. Loring, Chairman ; Chas. V. Preston, 

 Benjamin P. Ware, J. D. W. French, Alonzo B. Fellows, 

 David W. Low. 



MANURES. 



Your Committee regret that no entries have been made for 

 the premiums offered by the Society, for the best conducted 

 experiment in the preparation and application of manures, 

 whether animal, vegetable, or mineral ; a subject of so much 

 interest and importance to the farmer, a subject upon which so 

 much has been written, and yet one upon which so little positive 

 knowledge has been obtained, one where agricultural writers 

 and theorists, doctors and chemists, manufacturers of fertilizing 

 nostrums and their advertising agents, farmers and market 

 gardeners, are agreed upon no two particulars concerning their 

 management and application. 



It requires no little courage for any one to enter the arena, 

 either as a competitor for a premium or to add to the volumi- 

 nous writings already before the public, lest one should make 

 the present confusion more confounding. 



An eminent agricultural writer and theorist advocates the 

 importance of using all manure green from the barnyard and 

 plowing directly in, lest it should lose some of its fertilizing 

 qualities by evaporation or fermentation. When immediately, 

 a dozen others take up the refrain and continue it to the echo. 



