NORFOLK SOCIETY. 307 



The result shown, by striking the balance between the debt 

 and credit, makes Mr. Breck receive more than $1200 for his 

 year's labors, though he pays to the owner of the farm a sum 

 equal to the interest of more than $10,000. We award to Mr. 

 Breck the merit of good management, (for nothing short of that 

 could have accomplished so much, even on this well-prepared 

 farm,) and the first premium of the society, of twenty-five 

 dollars. 



CHEEVER NEWHALL, Chairman. 



Reclaimed Meadows. 



The committee, having been elected again to perform the 

 service entrusted to them last year, have continued a general 

 observation of the lands which were then entered for the pre- 

 miums offered by the society. These premiums, it had been 

 understood, were to be awarded after the success of the exper- 

 iment for which they were claimed, had been tested, in some 

 measure, by the crops of two successive years following the 

 entry of the claimants. We have ascertained, accordingly, 

 what has been the cultivation of the lands referred to, during 

 the past season, and what returns they have yielded. 



It will be seen by the statement of Mr. Tubbs, that he now 

 considers the cost of reclaiming his land, at an expense of 

 nearly $200 per acre, a profitable investment. And we are 

 disposed to add the expression of our own belief that such 

 would be the result, even if but small returns, in dollars and 

 cents, were annually received. In the improved appearance 

 and increased value of his lands, rendering them more attract- 

 ive and more saleable, together with his own gratification in 

 the result of his labors, he would find his investment a satis- 

 factory and profitable one. 



That portion of his land which had been laid down to grass 

 last fall, presented a strikingly beautiful surface in the spring, 

 and yielded a fair crop of good hay, at the right time. By a 

 further drainage of it, so that the surface water may entirely 

 escape, and by the completing of the owner's plans, which 



