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much industry. He has brought a waste piece of land into good 

 orcharding ; and his trees show that he has done it successfully. 

 The committee award him the second premium of ten dollars. 



Tiiey trust that they will see an increased attention to the 

 reclaiming of pasture lands for grazing purposes, as one of the 

 most important branches of the agriculture of the county. 



George B. Loring, Chairman. 



CULTURE OF TREES. 



ESSEX. 



Report of the Committee. 



A few years ago, it was thought that our forest trees were 

 fast falling before the woodman's axe, and that it was one of 

 the most important objects to promote their growth. I had the 

 honor, in 1838, to act on a committee of this society, with the 

 Hon. James H. Duncan and the Rev. Gardner B. Perry, on 

 forest trees ; and the report of the doings of that committee 

 may be found in the Transactions for 1839, awarding a premium 

 of thirty dollars to Mr. Nathan Webster, of Haverhill, for his 

 ten acre lot of cultivated forest trees. 



Having the honor to hold a place on the same committee, the 

 present year, which committee not having been called on by 

 the chairman to attend to any claims for our premiums, it 

 occurred to me to present to the Society some further account 

 of the success of that experiment, and also some observations 

 upon the subject of forest trees in general. 



I did not at the time think that the amount of wood and 

 timber in the county was likely to be greatly increased by the 

 experiment ; and by the report of the chairman, as published 

 in the Transactions of 1839, 1 am led to think the committee 

 were of nearly the same opinion ; but as the chairman had tried 

 an experiment, and was the only applicant, our first premium 

 of thirty dollars was awarded to him. 



The land was not well adapted to the growth of the kinds of 

 trees for which our premium was offered. It had never been 



