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 to; Mary F. Brown, Danvers, Motto; Hattie Batchelder, 

 Danvers, Motto ; Martha Dougherty, Danvers, Motto ; Edna 

 M Legro, Danvers, Motto; Miry F. Perry, Danvers, Toilet 

 .Set; Kittle E. Wiley, Peabody, Tidies. 



For the Committee, Mrs. E. G. Berry. 



FARMS. 



Your Committee have had but one application to examine 

 farms, entered for premium, and this was visited but once, 

 (iu July,) during the year. This farm (if it may be called 

 such) is situated in the western part of ILiverhill, and belougs 

 to Mr. Rufus Goodwin, and consists of about ten acres, near- 

 ly all of which is under cultivation. In addition to the state- 

 ment of Mr. Goodwin, which is presented herewith, your 

 Committee desire to say that, in awarding to him the Socie- 

 ty's second premium of $20, it is not given because of any 

 results attained of a magnitude corresponding with such as 

 have been reached by many farmers in the county, but be- 

 cause his work indicates the possession of a desirable faith in 

 :Soil cultivation as a remunerative pursuit, and because he has 

 «hown, in a comparatively small way, what may be accom- 

 plished by intelligent industry, patience, and perseverance in 

 the pursuits of husbandry. Mr. Goodwin is a machinist by 

 trade, and leaving the shop where he Avas employed at high 

 wao-Gs, in 1872, he entered upon the work of clearing his ten 

 acres of land of bushes and rocks, and bringing it into good 

 tilth. The results of his labors for three years abundantly 

 proved that it is safe for mechanics and others engaged in in- 

 dustrial labors to throw down their shop tools and take up the 

 "shovel and the hoe" on the land. He has proved that "ten 

 acres is enough" to support a good sized family, and leave 

 something in the bank each year for "wet days" in life. He 

 lias turned his rocky laud into what may be called a garden, 



