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how we can make the verdure of a hundred years ago wave 

 upon our gray and moss grown pastures ; and how the scarcity 

 and cost of labor here, where men receive their $2,50 or $3,00 

 per day at times, may be compensated for by the use of the 

 machinery, the invention of which has-been so much stimulat- 

 ed recently by this very scarcity and cost. Our Agricultural 

 Society is expected at its Annual Fair to collect and investigate 

 to some extent the results of the labors of the enterprising and 

 skilful farmers of the County for the year preceding, and the 

 various Committees are to put upon record in their reports, the 

 successful processes and results, with such suggestions and 

 comments as the subjects prompt. Thus these reports, if as 

 full, plain and practical, as they may be made by thought and 

 labor, become very valuable additions to our Agricultural lit- 

 erature, and will furnish that summary of home experience 

 which we see to be so important. 



The Committee award the first premium of $8, to Allen W. 

 Dodge, of Hamilton, for Report on Agricultural Implements ; 

 the second premium of $6, to B. P. Ware, of Marblehead, for 

 Report on Manures ; and the third premium of $4, to Joseph 

 S. Howe, of Methuen, for Report on the Dairy. 



For the Committee — Daniel E. SafFord. 



