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rowing are united in one. The land upon which tlie 

 work was performed, was a fresh inverted sward. It 

 was soon reduced by it to a very fine and mellow condi- 

 tion, suitable for sowing the smallest seeds with success. 

 The Committee are of opinion that it will be found a la- 

 bor-saving machine, but to what extent, further trial 

 must determine. They concur in the opinion that the 

 effort of Mr. Clapp is a most deserving one, being an ef- 

 fort to effect improvement in one of the most important 

 departments of agricultural operations. They recom- 

 mend that a gratuity often dollars be paid to him. 



A revolving saw, for trimming trees, evidently a very 

 useful instrument, was presented for exhibition only, by 

 Erastus Ware, of Salem, who deserves the thanks of the 

 Society for showing them how this laborious operation 

 may be facilitated. 



For the Committee, 



ALLEN W. DODGE. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF MIXED AND GRAIN 



CROPS. 



The Committee on the cultivation of mixed and grain 

 Crops Report : 



That the subject of mixed crops, for experiments, on 

 which premiums were for the first time offered by the 

 Essex Agricultural Society the present year, has not re- 

 ceived hitherto that attention from farmers which its im- 

 portance seems to demand. In the memoirs of the 

 Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture, vol. 2, 

 page 200, in a communication by John Lorain, dated 

 Tackony, 21st May 1810, there is stated an experiment 

 on planting Indian corn and potatoes in alternate rows, 

 *'the corn eight feet and three inches distant ; hills, or 

 rather clusters at eighteen inches on the rows, but three 

 plants suffered to grow in each. Between the corn, two 

 rows of potatoes planted, two feet three inches apart." 

 In a note appended, he further says, "I have frequently 

 planted Indian corn in single row.s eight feet asunder, and 



