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STATEMENT OF SAMUEL B. LOCKE. 

 I propose to offer a piece of Pasture land for premium. It 

 consists of about four acres, one half of which I have plough- 

 ed up. The expenses and profits of the same are as follows : 



KXPENSES. I 



To Getting out Stone, $50.00; 



Ditching and Stoning, 70.00 



PloUi!lnng, 16.00 



Manure, 32.00 



Seed Potatoo.'^, 12.00 



Seed Com, ■■ ■ ■ 50 



Hoeing and Harvesting 54.00 



$234.50 



Raised ox Same. 

 80 Bush. Sound Potatoes, (ffi $1.00.. . $S6.00 



114 '• Unsound " 50,.. .57.00 



95 " Corn in the Ear, 75,.. 70.50 



2 Cart loads Pumpkins, 10.00 



Stocks and But.s for fodder 1. om 



about ail acre of Corn, 10.00 



$233.50 



ESSAYS AND REPOPvTS OF COMMriTEES. 



The Committee on Essays and Reports of Committees, re- 

 ceived from the Secretary, for their consideration, four Essays 

 and six Reports, and av/ard as follows : 



To Dr. J. R. Nichols, for Essay on " Special Manures," the 

 premium of $10. 



To Gilbert L. Streeter, for Essay on " Management of the 

 Hen Coop/'" a gratuity of $8. 



To Ben. Perley Poore, for Report on Swine, the first pre- 

 mium of $15. 



To Allen W. Dodge, for Report on Vegetables, the second 

 premium of $10. ' 



The Committee considered themselves author zed to award 

 a premium to one essay only, however deserving the others 

 might be, but we recommend that all of them should be print- 

 ed with the Transactions of the Society, as they are too impor- 

 tant and interesting papers to be lost to the public ; the agri- 

 cultural essays which give the results of the careful and intel- 

 ligent experiment and observation of the writers themselves, 

 are of such practical value that it would perhaps be well so to 

 enlarge the authority of this Committee, that premiums could 

 be awarded to all such essays as should be worthy of this 

 acknowledgement. 



For the Committee — Daniel E. Safford. 



jSJoTE. — Dr. Nichols declined serving on this Committee. 



