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 AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS. 



Committee.— Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester ; Charles C. Sewell, Medfleld; Henry O. 

 Hiklreth, Dedham; Albert K. Teele, Milton; Benjamin G. Kimball, Needham. 



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