90 



Bartlelt, do., Car Coupling, $1 ; Colby Lamb, do., Meat Chop- 

 per. 50 cents ; E. Y. Ballou, do., Ornamental Hair AVork, $;2 ; 

 Wm, Kuhl, do., Watches. Chronometer and Xautical Instru- 

 ments, $2; John Dow, do., Book Case. $1 : Wm. E. Crockett, 

 do.. Belting and Rolls, $1 ; L. D. "Wheeler, do.. Horse Shoes 

 and Tools, $2 : J. Burrill, & Co., do.. Machine Graining, 50 cts. ; 

 Steam Heater, $2 ; I. Hale, Jr., do., Egg Beater, 50 cents; 

 J. S. Hart, do.. Coat, Vest, and Pants, $3 ; Sewell Jewett, 

 Haverhill, Blind Fastening, $1 ; Urias Uney, North Andover, 

 Horse Shoes, 75 cents ; Hugh McGlew, Xewburyport, do., 75 

 cents. 



Committee — M. T. Stevens, S. C. Bancroft, Richard Plum- 

 mer, Wm. Foster, Edwin Mudge, H. G. Herrick. 



FARMS. 



The farm of Mr. Samuel A. ^lerrill, of Danveis, or as it 

 may properly be called, the vegetable garden, has been brought 

 to the notice of your Committee on Farms, and some members 

 of that Committee have visited it twice during the season. 

 The farm comprises fifteen acres of land, the soil of great va- 

 riety and the surface very uneven — quite unlike that usually 

 chosen for the purpose of market gardening. This inequality 

 of surface gives better facilities for the arrangement of hot- 

 beds so as to secure suitable protection from the cold winds of 

 early Spring ; and, it must be conceded, is better adapted to 

 the production of some of the market crops, especially those 

 intended for the early market. It precludes the necessity of 

 underdrainage, which is an absolute necessity on some flat 

 lands, where for the want thereof many crops failed entirely 



