ON FARMS. 



127 



Joseph How, Methuen, 1837 



Erastus Ware, Marblehead, " 



Christopher How, Methuen, 1845 



Daniel P. King, Danvers, " 



Jonas Holt, Andover, " 



u .( u 1846 

 Daniel Pilsbury, W. Newbury, 1847 



Leverett Bradley, Methuen, 

 Henry B. Newhall, Lynn, 

 Joseph F. Ingalls, Methuen, 

 Jonathan Merrill, " 



Daniel Merrill, 2d, " 

 Simeon L. Wilson, " 

 J. F. Winkley, Amesbury, 

 Henry Poor, Andover, 

 William F. Porter, Bradford, 

 Joseph Holt, Jr. Andover, 



1848 



1849 



1850 



u 



1851 

 1852 



first premium, 

 second " 

 first " 



second " 

 gratuity, 

 second prem., 

 gratuity, 

 first premium, 

 third " 



gratuity, 



first premium, 

 second " 

 first " 



gratuity. 



30 00 

 25 00 

 25 00 

 20 00 

 8 00 

 20 00 

 10 00 

 25 00 

 10 00 

 15 00 

 10 00 

 10 00 

 10 00 

 15 00 

 10 00 

 25 00 

 15 00 



From this it appears that from 1821 to 1835, the first fifteen 

 years of the Society's existence, there were twenty-nine com- 

 petitors, and $675 awarded for farm management, while from 

 1837 to 1852 there were only seventeen competitors, and $283 

 awarded. Of these competitors, there were in Andover eleven, 

 Methuen eight. Danvers seven. West Newbury six. Marble- 

 head three, Newbury, Amesbury and Hamilton two each, 

 Salem, Lynn, Ipswich, Bradford and Rowley, one each. 



It would appear too that in 1826, '27 and '28, there was a 

 large number of competitors for these premiums. In those 

 years there seem to have been an interest and enthusiasm 

 elicited in these premiums, such as have not been witnessed 

 since. These were years, when the Committee had a duty 

 to perform that required the exercise of sound judgment and 

 discrimination, and from which they gathered much practical 

 information to embody in their reports. But of late, so few 

 have been the entries of farms for premium that there has been 

 little for the Committee to do in the way of the examination 

 and comparison of farms. 



The remedy for this state of things, it is difficult for the 

 Committee to see. They have no belief that increasing the 



