44 ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



Lot No. 4, containing two acres and fifty two poles, on a part 

 of which there was a growth of pine and maple, is cleared of all 

 bushes, stumps and roots, and is in a state of forwardness for 

 sowing. 



Lot No. 5, containing an acre and eighty five poles, and Lot 

 No. 6, containing one acre and sixty one poles, are cleared of 

 bushes, and prepared for carting on sand. 



No. 7 is in a state of nature, except the draining. No. 8 is 

 a piece of hard bottom, over which the brook flows that runs 

 through the meadow. 



Very respectfully, your ob't servant, 



ASA T. NEWHALL. 

 Lynnfield, Oct. 1831. 



N. B. The whole number of rods of ditch is four hundred and 

 thirty-seven, all of which was cut four feet wide and from two 

 to three feet deep, excepting forty-seven rods, which is about 

 two feet wide and from one to two feet deep. The whole ex- 

 pense of cutting the ditches was about one hundred dollars and 

 the clearing and deepening cost about half that sum. 



A. T. N. 



NO. IV. ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee on Farms to whom was referred the subject 

 of Agricultural Implements, report — 



That there were presented for examination by Jacob Wiley 

 of Lynn, a pair of boots or shoes for horses made of wood and 

 leather ; and designed to buckle upon the foot that the animal 

 might walk without sinking upon the salt marsh, so as to enable 

 the farmer by putting a temporary and very broad rim upon the 

 wheels of a common cart, to bring off the hay, which he would 

 otherwise be obliged to carry on poles by hand, or leave in stack 

 upon the meadows until the season permitted him to go for it on 

 the ice. The object in some parts of the country is of great 

 importance ; and the Committee having had satisfactory testimo- 

 ny that these shoes answered a valuable purpose, agreed to 



