550 



BARNSTABLE SOCIETY. 



Value of twelve bushels at $2 25, 



EXPENSES. 



Ploughing and harrowing, 

 Six loads of manure at 50 cts.. 

 One bushel of beans for seed, 

 Planting, $2; hoeing, $2 50, 

 Harvesting and threshing. 

 Winnowing and measuring, 

 Interest and taxes, 



Net profit, 



Yarmouth, Oct. 9, 1852. 



$27 00 



$2 00 



00 

 25 

 50 

 25 



75 

 25 



$18 00 

 $9 00 



The undersigned, a committee to award premiums of forest 

 trees, and the cultivation of cranberries, have attended to the 

 duty assigned to them, and have awarded the following pre- 

 miums, viz. : 

 To Lewis Hamblin, of Barnstable, for the best 



plantation of forest trees, the first premium of $6 00 



To Alvan Gaboon, of Harwich, for the best experi- 

 ment in the cultivation of the cranberry, the first 

 premium of . . . . . 5 00 



Naaman Dillingham, Chairman. 

 Barnstable, Nov. 26, 1852. 



Lewis Hamblin's Statement. 



I offer, for the consideration of the committee on the above 

 subject, two acres of pitch-pine trees. These trees are over 

 one year and not more than three years "old ; standing not less 

 than five hundred trees to the acre, and were all raised from 

 seed planted by myself. I have several acres more of larger 

 growth than that required by the rules of the society, which I 

 had planted at an earlier day. The land on which these trees 

 are planted, was worth at the time nothing for tillage, and 

 very little for pasturage. Its value could not exceed two 

 dollars per acre. The expense of planting is all comprehended 



