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experiments, made with a due reference to soil, manure, seasons^ 

 and other circumstances, and that it is only within a few years,, 

 that Science has been invoked to lend her aid in the operations- 

 of Husbandry. 



Your Committee, considering the farm of Doctor Kittredge 

 as a specimen of liberal, thorough, ^nd successful cultivation, 

 award to hira the Society's second Premium of Twenty-stv&n 

 Dollars. 



It is not possible to do exact justice, by instituting a compari- 

 son between two farms so unlike as those mentioned in this 

 Report, without being made acquainted with their management 

 and the expense applied for a series of years. Judging from the 

 present appearance, it would seem, that no expense has been 

 spared by Dr. K. in bringing his farm into its present improved 

 condition. Such management is well, by those who can afford 

 it, and in the end it will bring its reward. But such manage- 

 ment cannot be safely practised by those who have to rely en- 

 tirely on their farms and their labor for their support. Mr. 

 Chase's farm is a good illustration of what maybe accomplished 

 by persevering industry and economy, as a farmer. His state- 

 ment of produce and labor, is made with so much precision, as, 

 other things being equal, to induce the Committee to give him 

 the preference herein expressed. 



Your Committee have received from Mr. Hezekiah George, 

 the intelligent and judicious manager of the Town-farm in Ha- 

 verhill, on which the paupers are supported, of which the Com- 

 mittee have in a former report made honorable mention, a 

 communication, stating the produce and cultivation of an acre 

 of land on that farm sown with oats. The crop was uncommonly 

 large and heavy, being seventy-eight bushels twenty-six quarts 

 of oats, weighing thirty-six pounds to the bushel. The Com- 

 mittee, not being authorized to award a premium for a crop of this 

 sort, can only refer the subjoined communication of Mr. George 

 to the favorable consideration of the Trustees. 

 For the Committee. 



James H. Duncan, Chairman. 



December 31, 1833. 



