76 ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEJIENTS. 



RICHARD PPIILLIPS, Jr's., STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on reclaiming Meadov) Lands : 



Gentlemen : — The piece of land which I offer for a 

 premium is for what labor I did previous to 1841. The 

 piece contains about 3^ acres, and when I commenced 

 on it, which was in the month of June, 1839, the water 

 on a large part of it was 2^r or 3 feet deep. My first ef- 

 fort was to drain it, and by fall we succeeded in being 

 able to cut a ditch through it. When we commenced, 

 this land was covered very thickly with dog-wood, bil- 

 berry bushes, small maples, black alders, and other bush- 

 es. We cut these down in June and burnt them on the 

 land. A part of this land is composed of vegetable mat- 

 ter from 1 to 3 and 8 feet deep. The first year we got 

 a crop on this land, we had 1| tons per acre; last year, 

 on the 31 acres, there were 8 tons of the first crop, and 

 3 tons of the second crop, being 11 tons of good prime 

 English hay on the 3|- acres. 



This land is now of the first rate quality, and very 

 valuable ; before we commenced working it, it was a 

 nuisance, a pit of unhealthy stench. 



Yours respectfully, K. PHILLIPS, Jr. 



Topsfield, Nov. 1, 1843. 



ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee on Improved Agricultural Imple- 

 ments Report : 



That to their inspection was submitted a fox-trap, 

 which was a beautiful and highly finished specimen of 

 w^orkmanship, and, as such, it would doubtless have re- 

 ceived due consideration from the Committee on Manu- 

 factures. It did not, however, appear to possess any 

 novelty in the contrivance, by which the operations of 

 Messrs. Reynard &, Co., were to be curtailed. 



Mr. Clapp, of Dorchester, exhibited in actual opera- 

 tion, an entirely new implement called a Scarifier and 

 Roller, by which the two operations of rolling and har- 



