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make cultivation easier, and be finally the most economical. 



Already parts of the ditches on this meadow are so choked as 

 to be unequal to the work they ought to do, and in such places 

 the cultivated grass is giving way to the coarse and reedy herb- 

 a<^e natural to wet localities. Still, so far as it has been comple- 

 ted the Committee judge Mr. Dane's experiment in great mea- 

 sure a success, and an encouragement and example to otliers in 

 the County who possess such lands, and they have no hesitation 

 in awarding him the first premium of $15.00. 



Committee — Henry Saltonstall, Daniel J. Hale, Amos Poor. 



IMPROVING PASTURES AND WASTE LANDS. 



The Committee on Improving Pastures and Waste Lands re- 

 spectfully submit the following report : — 



The Committee were invited to visit but one farm, that of Jo- 

 seph Horton of Ipswich, whose statement accompanies this re- 

 port. They recommend the award to him of the first premium 

 of $15.00. Ov.^ing to an unusual delay in the receipt of the no- 

 tice, your Committee did not see the crop growing, but are of 

 the opinion, after examination of the hay and ground, that he 

 has not over-estimated either the amount or quality of the crop. 

 His method of preparing the soil commended itself to your 

 Committee from the fact, that by the aid of a steel plough and 

 a yoke of oxen, he has accomplished more and in a shorter space 

 of time than could have been accomplished by six oxen and as 

 many men by the old method. This lot compares favorably 

 with the average Ipswich fields, that is smooth enough, every 

 rod of it being readily mown with Wood's machine. The ashes 



