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allowed to jjrow anion"; the rows or under the bushes. The 

 soil is kept loose and fine by frequent hoeings. 



The currant worm had made its appearance among the 

 bushes, and some of the leaves had been eaten ; but the lot 

 taken together were in better condition than any I have seen 

 this year. 



Mr. Huff informed me that he had kept down the currant 

 worm by the use of a liberal showering of copperas water, two 

 or three times during the season. The receipt he gave me for 

 its manufacture is as follows : 



To 12 gallons of water add 1 pound of copperas ; mix in a 

 tub or barrel, or any other vessel convenient, and apply to the 

 bushes with a common gardener's watering-pot. About three 

 applications, when the bushes are growing, will generally suf- 

 fice to rid them of the pest. The liquid is applied directly to 

 the foliage ; no bad effects are produced by its coming in con- 

 tact with the tender leaves or shoots. 



Geo. W. Taylor, jor the Committee. 



Peabody, Sept. 25th, 1874. 



Note. — The Trustees voted to award to Mr. Huff the 

 premium of Ten Dollars. 



Chas. p. Preston, Sec'v. 



TREADWELL FARM. 



The Committee on the Tread well Farm rcsj:)ectfully report, 

 that the farm has been leased to Mr. T. W. Pierce, of Tops- 

 field, for a term of seven years — the conditions of the lease 

 being, that the lessee shall pay $500 rent per year ; keep the 

 fences in repair ; manage the farm in a good husbandlike 

 manner; conduct, at his expense, such experiments, on not 

 more than two acres of land per year, as the Committee may 

 ■direct ; and to apply fifty cords of good merchantable manure 



