90 



Dr. 



To 2 days labor cutting out canes, S3 00 



" 100 lbs. P. R. fertilizer, 1 40 



" Picking, Marketing, 23 75 



" Boxes, 23 75 



$31 90 



Or. 

 By 928 pt. boxes, 178 85 



31 90 



Profit, f46 95 



Respectfully, 



William K. Cole, 

 J. D. Drew. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON IMPROVED PAS- 

 TURE AND WASTE LAND. 



The committee on improved pasture and waste land, 

 having been requested to view a piece of land owned by 

 E. C. Little of Merrimac, Mass., have attended to their 

 duties, and respectfully report to the secretary that they 

 have made the following award as offered by the society. 

 The first premium of ten dollars ($10). 



Isaac F. Knowlton, B. F. Barnes. — Committee. 



STATEMENT CONCERNING PIECE OF WASTE LAND 

 ENTERED FOR PREMIUM BY E. C. LITTLE. 



This land last year, 1897, was mostly covered with 

 huckleberry bushes and sweet fern. We mowed and burnt 

 the bushes the last of July, and plowed. It was very 

 rocky, so much so that it took two men to follow the plow 

 with pickaxes. We picked off the rocks and harrowed 



