PASTURE AND WASTE LANDS. 117 



Bj 2 loads pumpkins, $3 00 



pickles, 1 25 



Total, $321 75 



Deduct expenses, .... 224 31 



Leaves a profit of .... $97 44 

 Dover, November 14, 18 GO. 



From the Report of the Committee on Clearing Unimproved 



Land. 



The committee report that only one claim was made upon 

 them this year. They regret this fact, for they know that more 

 or less land is cleared and subdued every year in this county, 

 and the owners are entitled to recognition and reward at the 

 hands of the society. The object of the Society in rewarding 

 the efforts of the farmer is partially defeated if there be but one 

 applicant for each premium. The object is not to induce the 

 one farmer to come forward and receive his premium for one 

 piece of work done, perhaps without regard to cost, but to cause 

 all who have done the same work to invite the committee to 

 examine the case and award a premium to him who has done 

 the best work in the most economical and. profitable manner. 

 In the one case the society encourages a wasteful application 

 of money and labor to rough lands, in the other it encourages 

 a display of sound judgment and good management. It is to 

 be hoped that another year may find this fact more fully 

 impressed upon the farmers of our county, and that the com- 

 mittee of next year may find enough to do. The importance 

 of these visits is acknowledged quite universally, but still not 

 with that depth of conviction which the committee^ think it 

 deserves. The views of members from various parts of the 

 county, and their different systems of management, and their 

 differing opinions as to the system adopted by the farmer on 

 whose ground they are, are all discussed earnestly, and every 

 one present is satisfied that he has learned something, and made 

 a stride in the march of improvement. This was the case in 

 our recent meeting on the farm of Mr. John Sias, in ]\rilton ; 

 we all came away with the determination to do some things 



