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COMMITTEE ON HAY. 



To tlic Directors of the Marshfeld Agricultural Society : 



Only one piece of grass entered for premium this year, and 

 that from the much abused, but highly productive, reclaimed 

 marshes of Green Harbor, by Edward White, The laud was 

 ploughed in the fall of 1875, sown with rye and grass seed ; 

 July of 1876 was harvested thirty-three bushels of rye on the 

 acre. 1877 your Committee surveyed one-fourth of the acre, 

 which they thought an average of the acre of grass. Was cut 

 about the middle of July, and weighed seventeen hundred and 

 two pounds, (1702) of well made hay, making the crop of the 

 acre three tons, eight hundred and eight pounds, (6,808 lbs.) 

 which your Committee think entitles Mr. White to the first pre- 

 mium of tea dollars. 



Respectfully submitted, 



HARVEY D. NORTHEY, Scituate, ) ^ ... 

 JOHN H. BOURNE, Marshfield, [ ^onminee. 



