68 ON RECLAIMED MEADOWS. 



Amount of Income brought over, $702 82 



Expenses. 

 Expenses of 1838, per account, $246 67 

 1839. 74£ days work, farm help, 50 45 



Extra labor hired, 

 4 cords of Manure, 



Seed Potatoes, 

 1 bushel Rohan Potatoes, 

 1-2 pound Sugar Beet seed, 

 " " Carrot seed, 

 1-4 " Mangel Wurtzel seed, 

 4 casks of Lime, at 40c. 

 35 bushels Ashes, at 6 l-2c. 

 Hauling " from Lynn, 

 Ruta Baga and Squash seed, 

 Use of Horse and Cart, 20 00—387 93 



Balance in favor of meadow, $314 89 



with of course an increased value of the land, which 

 is by good judges, considered in its present state, 

 worth one hundred dollars per acre, which in addi- 

 tion to the crops taken off would give a net profit of 

 seven hundred and fourteen dollars eighty-nine cents. 

 Respectfully your ob't. servant, 



William Osborn. 

 Lynn, Dec. 14, 1839. 



DANIEL PUTNAM'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, > 

 on Reclaimed Meadow-Lands : C 



Gentlemen — The meadow which some of your 

 number examined last summer, is supposed to meas- 



