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dispensed with, and tubs, casks, &c., of a size which, 

 when nearly full, may be easily lifted into a farmer's 

 cart, or wagon, be substituted therefor. To these, 

 which should be the receptacles of all liquid and solid 

 excremental productions of the family, let tight covers 

 be fitted, and they may be removed to the field, the 

 compost heap, without offending the sense of smelling 

 more than so many casks of cider or spent ley would do 

 — especially if a little gypsum, or coal ashes should 

 have occasionally during the filling been thrown in as a 

 sweetener. A family of four adults, or their equivalent 

 in children, would produce at least 25 gallons per 

 month of this semi-liquid poudrette, which, if well mixed 

 with six or eight limes its bulk of meadow mud, forms a 

 most valuable compost; and could all be thus saved and 

 used which is produced in this county, it would be suf- 

 ficient, in addition to the other manures used by farm- 

 ers, to raise to a high state of fertility every acre of til- 

 lage lands W'ithin the same territory. 



Mr. Putnam and Mr. How will, we trust, observe the 

 effect of their experimental manuring on future crops, 

 and communicate all they may hereafter learn from their 

 experiments on the length of time the several substances 

 used may operate beneficially on the soil to which they 

 were applied. To encourage them to do so, although 

 their experiments were not so satisfactory as could 

 have been wished, yet the public may derive some val- 

 uable information therefrom, and to induce others to 

 become competitors for the premiums offered, by the 

 consideration that they will be awarded to somebody, 

 the committee recommend that the first premium, of 

 twenty dollars, be awarded to Allen Putnam, of Hamil- 

 ton, and the second, of ten dollars, to Joseph How, of 

 Methuen. 



Per order of the Committee, 



ANDREW NICHOLS. 



Georgetown, Dec. 20, 1842. 



