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to raise their own wheat. Mr. Chase's statement of the ar- 

 rangement of his time and meals will be interesting to practical 

 farmers. His example furnishes another proof that the labor of 

 a farm can be well done without the use of ardent spirits. The 

 Committee regret that Mr. C. was prevented by a fractured 

 hmb, from furnishing his statement within the time prescribed by 

 the Kules of the Society, but b&heve that this misfortune will be 

 accepted as a sufficie^u apology for the delay. Your Committee 

 thmkmg that the' farm of Mr. Chase presents an example of 

 judicious, prudent and economical management, regarded as a 

 whole, consider hirn as deserving, and accordingly award to him 

 the Society's first Premium of Thirty Dollars. 



The farm of Doctor Kittredge, is situated on a very beautiful 

 swell of land in the North Parish of Andover. It is a rich and 

 rather moist soil inclining to gravel, and has been brought by the 

 liberal use of manure to a high state of fertility. The whole 

 farm presented the appearance of good husbandry. The stock 

 was good, and in good condition, the crops were clean, and a 

 very handsome orchard was in a thrifty, bearing condition. 

 Doctor K.'s corn crop was nearly as large as Mr. Chase's on the 

 same number of acres, and their modes of cultivation were very 

 similar except in the distance of the hills. His experiment in 

 raising winter wheat was highly successful, and the product of 

 forty bushels from one hundred and thirty rods of land sown with 

 winter rye, is uncommonly large, being at the rate of fifty bushels 

 to the acre. Doctor Kittredge attributed much of his success in 

 raising large crops of corn and potatoes, to the practice of fall- 

 ploughing, while Mr. Chase expressed to the Committee, his 

 preference for spring-ploughing, and thus an important question is 

 presented, which the Committee will not now attempt to decide. 

 A long essay might be written on the comparative advantages of 

 spring and fall ploughing, and we hope some member of the society 

 will confer on it the favor of furnishing for its Transactions, a 

 full examination of this interesting question. 



It is almost surprising that in an art so old as agriculture, 

 there should still exist such differences of opinion in regard to 

 most of its operations ; but it should be remembered, that these 

 questions can only be settled by a great number of accurate 



