MEADOW AND SWAMP LAND. Ill 



able application of labor. The piece owned by Orrin Curtis, of 

 Sheffield, was on the west side of Harmon Pond, and nearly on 

 a level with the same, mostly muck-covered, with bogs, hard- 

 hack, &c., the higliest part covered with alders and other small 

 wood, with a clay subsoil — a most forbidding-looking piece of 

 land, if it might be called by such a name. 



Theodore H. Fenn entered one acre, on the west side of Negro 

 Pond Swamp, a piece entirely unproductive, where cattle could 

 not walk on a considerable part of it, covered with bogs, hard- 

 hack, alders, large pine stumps, whortleberry bushes, &c. ; soil, 

 muck, clay and gravel subsoil. 



John Hale of Tyringham, had in process of reclaiming some 

 three or four acres ; can be thoroughly drained ; soil, decom- 

 posed vegetable matter, washed from the hill east of it by a 

 brook running through the same. 



The above lands have been examined three times by a major- 

 ity, or at least some one or more of the Committee, viz., in 

 September, 1865, 1867 and 18G8, they having witnessed the 

 progress and success of the competitors. Your Committee 

 avail themselves of the statements of the competitors, and 

 append the same as a part of their Report. 



Statement of Orrin Curtis. 

 Dr. 



1865. To labor on main ditch, 110 00 



Under-drains, with plank bottoms, and filled 



with stone, 15 00 



Taking out brush, trees, hard-hack, &c., by the 



roots, 35 00 



Spreading muck from the main ditch, and har- 

 rowing in grass seed, &c., . . . . 5 00 

 Grass seed, Timothy and redtop, . . . 5 00 

 Three loads manure, 3 00 



1866. To cutting brush and weeds, and ploughing on 



the part joining the upland which was not 



finished last fall, 15 00 



One under-drain, commencing near the lines 

 and running east six rods and south four 

 rods to main ditch, 12 00 



