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much still remains to be done, to improve this most important 

 of all sciences. It is much more difficult to arrive at satisfactory- 

 results in agriculture than in almost any thing else. The great 

 variety of our soil and the difference of our seasons make a larger 

 number of experiments necessary than any individual can make 

 to satisfy himself — from which we infer the vast importance of 

 this source of information, where every individual may have an 

 opportunity of of examining for himself, and of adopting such as 

 seems to him likely to be useful. We hope the committee for 

 1836 will not be under the necessity of repeating the complaint 

 which has been so many limes made by the committees appoint- 

 ed for that purpose. 



Daniel Putnam, of Danvers, entered his farm for premium. 

 His farm is not large, and some part of his land is rough and 

 unproductive ; but there was in the opinion of the committee 

 good evidence, both in doors and out, of enterprise, skill, dili- 

 gence, neatness, temperance and economy. His statement is 

 full, and we believe accurate. We shall not comment upon it, 

 as it will be published with the report, and in our opinion de- 

 serves a careful examination. The committee consider him en- 

 tilled to, and award him the first premium of thirty dollars. 

 Respectfully submitted by 



DEAN ROBINSON, Chairman. 



DANIEL PUTNAM'S STATEMENT. 



To tlu. CommilUe on Farms, 1835, of the Essex Agricultural Society : — 



Gentlemen — My farm, which is entered for premium, 

 consists of about 80 acres. Not far from 33 acres of it are suit- 

 able for tillage ; in addition to this, 12 acres are suitable for 

 mowing. Of these last, one is gravelled meadow, one is irriga- 

 ted land, and 10 are wet or peat rneadow; The remainder of 

 the farm can only be pastured ; it is so rocky that it cannot be 

 ploughed nor mowed, and has very much run over to bushes. 

 The greater part of my tillage land is a dark loam upon a grav- 

 elly subsoil : 8 or 10 acres, with nearly the same subsoil, have 



