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Besides having a good handsome field for cultivation, instead of 

 an almost Avorthless rocky and bushy pasture. Perhaps I should 

 have mentioned that there are a few rods at one corner of the 

 acre lot which are now in their natural state. 



JonN SiAS. 

 3Iilton. Nov. 12, 18G0. 



REPORT ON MEADOW A:ND SWAMP LANDS. 



The Committee on Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands, re- 

 gret to state that they have not been called upon to examine any 

 improvements in the line of their duty. But it is not to be infer- 

 red from this that nothing has been done the past year by our 

 Norfolk farmers to render their meadow and swamp lands more 

 productive. Much has been done, and well done in certain loca- 

 tions, although it may be not enough in any one case, in the 

 opinion of the enterprising owner of the improved land, to entitle 

 him to a premium from this Society. Indeed there are compara- 

 tively few practical farmers who can conveniently spare the time 

 and labor necessary to make extensive improvements of this kind 

 in a single year. 



But a good and thrifty farmer, who has profitless meadow and 

 swamp lands on his premises, will not allow a season to pass over 

 his head without converting some portion of his cold, springy, 

 boggy land, by undei'-draining and the aid of a plough which will 

 throw out stumps and bring up treasures from far down beneath 

 the surface, into fertile fields bearing luxuriant crops. Were 

 every farmer in Norfolk County to do a little of this work every 

 year, if only a few square rods, a few years would produce a strik- 

 ing change in the character of our farms and a marked increase in 

 the farming productions of the County. 



JOHN S.- SLEEPER, Chairman. 



Roxhury, Sept. 2T, 18G0. 



REPORT ON GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops respectfully report that they 

 have attended to the duty assigned to them, and have awarded the 

 following premiums : 



For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn — To John Sias, 

 of Milton, $8. 



For the second best — To B. N. Sawin, of Dover, $G. 



