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Embroidery ; Cynthia Smith, do., Stand Cover and Worsted 

 Bracket ; Cora L. Savory, do., Pin Cushion ; — 50 cents 

 each. 



Committee — E. P. Hill, Hayden Brown, Edwin Mudge, 

 M. J. Dole, Dudly Porter, Charles B. Emerson. 



FARMS. 



The Farm of Richard Webster, situated in Haverhill, AVest 

 Parish, having been offered for premium, was visited by the 

 Committee, on the 2Tth of August. Mr. Webster's Statement 

 which is appended, presents most of the facts connected with 

 the purchase, and the improvements made upon the farm. It 

 will be seen that this farm is a small one, about 40 acres being 

 the whole amount included in tillage and pasture, and a con- 

 siderable portion of this is still unreclaimed. The condition 

 of the land prior to its passing into Mr. Webster's hands in 

 1859, was not very inviting, being poor and rocky. Mr. W. 

 was a carpenter by trade, having little or no experience in the 

 cultivation of the soil. He was driven to seek out-of-door 

 employments, by the threatening aspects of pulmonary disease 

 which was making rapid inroads upon his constitution. He 

 resolutely took hold of the business of cultivating and improv- 

 ing his land, so far as his impaired health would permit ; built 

 a small but comfortable dwelling-house ; erected a grain house ; 

 put an old barn upon the premises, in order to receive his 

 scanty crops ; and struggling against the adverse influences of 

 physical weakness and scanty means, has in seven years accom- 

 plished so much as to lead him to venture upon submitting his 

 farm for examination, with the view of obtaining the Society's 

 premium. 



