92 ON RECLAIMED MEADOW LANDS. 



three feet, the swamp settled two feet ; so that the pond is not 

 now more than one foot lower than the meadow. When he 

 has completed his ditches so that he can have the control of 

 the water, we think this meadow favorably situated for the 

 production of grass. We do not know what will be the effects 

 of the kind of manure applied to this land, for coming years, 

 but the produce this year has been extraordinary, ^r seed sown 

 last spring. From what we saw, our impression is, that it 

 causes the grass to grow so fast that it will not stand up, to 

 produce a large crop, but will have to be mown often. This 

 will be no objection to one who is situated as Mr. Ware is, and 

 wishes to use his hay for making milk. We consider a re- 

 claimed meadow peculiarly valuable upon a milk farm ; as the 

 early cut hay and second crop will make a greater flow of 

 milk than well ripened hay. 



Whatever may be the intrinsic worth of reclaimed meadows 

 compared with other parts of the farm, we think that any one 

 who has reclaimed a worthless meadow will have something 

 of the feehng of the man in the parable of the lost sheep ; he 

 will rejoice more over that acre, than over the ninety and nine 

 which needed no reclaiming. 



The Committee unanimously award : 



To Samuel Kimball, of Boxford, first premium, $15 00 



" Horace Ware, 2d, of Salem, second premium, 10 00 



WM. R. PUTNAM, Chairman. 



SAMUEL KIMBALL'S STATEMENT. 



The swamp land recently viewed by the Committee, was 

 surveyed in June, 1851, and contains 5 1-80 acres, including 

 ditches, which occupy 17 rods of the surface. 



Most of it has been a dense growth of pine and maple until 

 within the last seven or eight years. During the winter of 

 1846, all the wood of any value then remaining on the swamp, 

 was taken off. The original growth on a part of this swamp 



