ON MEADOW AND SWAMP LANDS, 6l 



the season, and one was milked through the last winter. 

 We use one cow's milk in our family, therefore we cal- 

 culate but three cows to make butter and cheese from. 

 From the 15th of May to the last ot August, we have 

 made 174 pounds of new milk and 281 pounds of four- 

 meal cheese, and up to this time 204 pounds of butter. 

 The feeding of the cows has been grass only. The 

 process of making you will find fully stated in the So- 

 ciety's Transactions of 1841. 



Yours respectfully, 



ISAAC CAR RUTH. 

 Andover, Sept, 27, 1842. 



IMPROVING MEADOW AND SWAMP LANDS. 



The Committee on Improving Meadow and Swamp 

 Lands Report: 



That the attention of your committee has been called 

 to one claim only for improving these lands — that of 

 Daniel P. King, of Danvers. Mr. King has made ex- 

 periments on several pieces of meadow lands, with good 

 success, the crops of hay, the first season after sowing, 

 with the pairings of the meadow for manure, having 

 more than paid the expense of reclaiming. His state- 

 ment, herewith submitted, w^ill explain his mode of re- 

 claiming and cultivating said land. 



Your committee regret that more claims for premiums 

 have not been made the present year, so that by the 

 statements of claimants the process of draining and cul- 

 tivating, and of the different kinds of crops produced 

 w^ith the greatest success, might have been made more 

 generally know^n ; but notwithstanding there has been 

 but one claim presented, they have the pleasure to 

 know that there are many pieces of these lands now in 

 the process of reclamation within the County, that ma- 

 ny pieces that have been w'orked but a few years are 

 very productive in grain, grass and vegetables, and that 

 the result of the experiments already made has raised 



