116 UNDERDRAINING LAND — GRAIN CROPS. 



UNDERDRAININO LAND. 



The committee have not been able to visit the land entered by 

 Ephraim Brown, of Marblehead, for an experiment in underdrain- 

 ing, but have the testimony of several of the Trustees that the 

 experiment has been every way successful, and well deserving of 

 the first premium, of $15.00, which they award to Mr. Brown. 



A full description of the experiment, with a diagram of the 

 drains, was published in the Transactions of last year, to which 

 reference may be had. 



JOSEPH HOW, Chairman. 



ORAIN CROPS. 



The committee have to regret that so few crops have been entered, 

 or rather that, having been entered, the statements respecting the 

 same have not been handed in at the proper time. Lambert May- 

 nard, of Bradford, entered a crop of oats and rye ; Samuel A. 

 Merrill, of Salem, a crop of rye and of corn, but have both failed 

 to follow up their entries by written statements, as required by our 

 rules. 

 The committee award to James Day, of Haverhill, for Indian 



Corn crop, first premium, $10.00 



To William Foster, of North Ahdover, for a crop of oats, 



' the first premium, $10.00 



Statements of the same, with the proper certificates, have been 

 filed with the Secretary. 



In the absence of any statement on the cultivation of rye, per- 

 haps it would not be inappropriate to lay before the Society the 

 result of an experiment in the cultivation of th:vt crop on the town 

 farm in South Danvers. The soil on this farm is shallow and very 

 gravelly, and it has been the practice in the cultivation of crops 

 here, to manure sward ground in the fall, — using four cords of 



