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carefully cultivate two years, and then to lay down to grass* 

 In this manner he has gone over nearly the whole of the til- 

 lage land on the farm, which is now all in grass, and the gen- 

 erally well set sward showed a marked change from its appear- 

 ance when ]Mr. Gould commenced improving the farm. Then 

 a large portion of it, which is plain land, presented a ban-en 

 appearance with no sward : then the farm yielded but five tons 

 of English hay, and this year it has produced thirty-five tons, 

 besides five acres of oats, of good quality. 



It is believed by the Committee that Mr. Gould has moi-e 

 than complied with the condition of his lease in regard to the 

 application of fifty cords of good mamire per year to the farm ; 

 l)ut he has not met the requirement of applying two Imndre*! 

 loads of meadoAV mud annually, on account of a division ot 

 opinion of the Committee as to the expediency of digging mud 

 from a meadow Avhere cranberries grew. A part of the Com- 

 mittee is disappointed in not having the experiment of the ef- 

 fects of meadow mud upon the plain land, (avIucIi constitutes 

 a large portion of the arable land of the farm), fully teste<l ; 

 in view of th::t the members Avho were present, requested Mr. 

 Gould to makc» a thorough trial of it, upon a portion of the 

 plain land, tluit he has not yet plowed, which he agreed to dj. 



For the (^)mmittee — Benj. P. Ware. 



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 tlu-ee Reports, and they aAvard the premiums as follows, viz : 



To J. D. W. French of Xorth Andover for Essay on tin? 

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