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REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE ON TREADWELL 



FARM. 



To the Committee on the Treadwell Farm. 



Sirs — The following is a report of the stock kept and 

 crops raised upon the farm during the year 1900 : 



2 horses, 23 cows and one bull ; 15 tons English hay, 

 15 tons meadow hay, 2| tons oat fodder, 300 bushels pota- 

 toes, 60 bushels beets, 75 bushels parsnips, 70 bush, red 

 top white globe turnips, 400 bush, ruta baga turnips, 120 

 bush, sweet corn, 75 bush, tomatoes, 100 bush, carrots, 60 

 bbls. apples, 4 acres ensilage. 



$355 worth of hay was purchased for use during the 

 winter of 1899 and 1900. 



il60 has been laid out on the buildings and one new 

 pump purchased, costing i8, not ordered. 



Remaining on hand, three and one-half thousand shin- 

 gles. 



D. Bradstreet. 



COMMITTEE ON FOREST TREES. 



Agreeably to the notification of entry of a "plantation 

 of not less than 300 white pine trees," by Mr. Francis R. 

 Appleton of Ipswich, your committee assembled at Ips- 

 wich on August 20th, 1900, and were met by Mr. Apple 

 ton and driven through the charming town by the river, 

 past the former homestead of the late Prof. McKean of 

 Harvard, the memorial tablets at one end of the Common, 

 and thence under aged elms, and out by the three mile 

 drive to Mr. Appleton 's estate. 



The members of the Society's committee who were able 

 to attend consisted of Gen. Francis H. Appleton, chair- 

 man, and Messrs. David Pingree and John Robinson. 



