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WORK OF CHILDREN UNDER TWELVE YEARS 



OF AGE. 



The Committee award as follows : — 



Edith Weeks, Salem, painting, 50 cents ; Daisey Derby, 

 Salem, tidy, 50 cents ; Rita Derby, Salem, tidy, 50 cents ; 

 Nettie Elva Fellows, Peabody, quilt, 50 cents ; Essie M- 

 Shaw, Peabody, collar and duster holder, 60 cents ; Hattie 

 Osborn, Peabody, mat, 50 cents ; Edith S. Todd, Rowley, 

 tidy, 50 cents; Gertie W. Carlton, Rowley, motto, etc., 50 

 cents; A. Shirly Ladd, Groveland, album of pressed flow- 

 ers, '11 ; Annie E. Wayt, Hamilton, braided mat, $1 ; Fred 

 P. Simonds, Salem, fruit from casts, $1 ; Arthur T. Val- 

 lenline, Salem, pair shoes, 50 cents ; Belle Wilson, Pea- 

 body, twine bag, 50 cents. 



A true copy of Awards. 

 Attest, 



D. W. Low, Siipt. of Hall. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



• The Committee on Experiments with Manures respectful- 

 ly submit the following report : — 



Horace F. Longfellow, of Byfield, is the only competitor 

 for the Society's premium, and by his statement is shown 

 that his experiments tliis year are principally continuations 

 of experiments reported upon last year, and for which he 

 was awarded the first premium. This experiment is of 

 much interest, showing that onions, on some land, may be 

 grown successfully, foi- many years successively, with com- 

 mercial fertilizers alone, this making the sixtli year of crop- 

 ping with onions, and only Russell Coe's or the Standard 

 Fertilizer applied. Bnt it must be borne in mind that this 

 same land was heavily manured for three years, with from 

 seven to ten cords of ,good stable manure ; the land thus 

 i)cing in a high state of fertilization in beginning the experi- 



