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case, small gates can be placed in the ditches, so as occasionally 

 to raise the water and moisten the lands between them. In ad- 

 dition to this, Mr. Denny has the command of water by which he 

 can irrigate this reclaimed land, by which he would secure large 

 crops from it ; but, having other land over which this water may 

 be used to great advantage, he may think it more advisable to 

 stop the water in the ditches if he shall find it necessary. Other 

 improvements have been made by him in fences, cultivation, 

 and the erection of convenient buildings ; but perhaps no one 

 thing would more highly commend itself to the attention of a 

 farmer, than his facility for saving and increasing manure. 

 Having at command an unlimited supply of meadow mud, he 

 most profitably mixes it, from time to time, with the dung from 

 his stock in his capacious barn-cellar. 



The committee recommend that the premium of eight dollars 

 be paid to D. Waldo Lincoln, for his crop of carrots, it being the 

 greatest quantity entered for competition ; and to Orrin Fair- 

 banks, the sum of five dollars for the next greatest quantity on 

 one quarter of an acre of land. They regret there has been no 

 applicant for either of the other premiums for root crops offered 

 by the Society. 



Mr. Denny's communication is hereunto appended, as con- 

 taining valuable information to those having such meadows, 

 which they may also improve. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Statement of William A. Wheeler. 



I herewith hand you a statement of the product of carrots 

 upon one acre of ground on my farm, in Worcester, for the three 

 years last past. 



