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many farms quite as productive as those viewed by your com- 

 mittee, that were not entered for premium, and the views of 

 this society in offering premiums on farms being prospective, 

 the committee do not feel justified in awarding at present, the 

 highest premium to either of the competitors, and would rec- 

 ommend the continuance of these offers for the next year. 



Mr. Green, having received the highest premium from a 

 society receiving the bounty of the State, the committee do 

 not deem it proper to award him a premium at this time. 



Mr. Allis and Mr. Dickinson, not having returned the re- 

 quired statement of the amount of the productions of their 

 farms, cannot claim an award. 



Your committee recommend, as an act of encouragement, 

 that the third premium of $20, be awarded to T. P. Hunt- 

 ington, of Hadley. 



All which is submitted. 



Elisha Edwards, Chairman. 

 Northampton, Jan. 1, 1853. 



Linus Greeti's Statement. 



My farm, of one hundred acres, is in Hadley. In its man- 

 agement, I have always aimed at the most economical im- 

 provements. The quantity of produce may have been greater 

 in some former years; but, viewed with reference to the 

 manner and expense of cultivation, the yield of the present 

 year has been very abundant. The farm, in its general ap- 

 pearance and appendages, is in excellent order. It lies in one 

 body, and is all in cultivation. It contains 48 acres of excel- 

 lent pasture, 32 acres of line mowing, and 20 acres in tillage. 

 Two-thirds of the soil is clay, and the remainder is gravelly 

 and light. I have made it out of swampy fields, overgrown 

 with alders and brush, and of worn out, poor land, by twenty 

 years of hard labor. There is not half an acre that I have not 

 ploughed. Among the results of economical experiments, I 

 mention deep ploughing not less than eight to nine inches, 

 which I now practice. By systematic rotation of crops, my 

 farm improves annually in its productive qualities. I find it 

 profitable to compost all my manure with lime for top-dress- 

 ing ; to mix seed corn, and to mix grass seed. On moist land, 



