50 FARMS. 



Jerome Burditt, "Brown Horse"; K-. L. fGoddard, "Black Horse.'' 

 "Baltimore Belle" won in three straight heats. 



1st premium to "Bahimore Belle," $15 00 



2d premium to "Black Horse," 10 00 



Your Committee would take this occasion to say that this class did 

 more for the entertainment of the large number present than any other, 

 at the same time adding large receipts to the treasury. 



SOLOMON H. HOWE, Chairmcm. 



FARMS. 



The Committee on Farms have attended to their duty, and submit 

 the following report : 



There was but one farm entered for our inspection, and that was by 

 Cyrus Kilburn of Lunenburg. On the 26th of June, the Committee 

 visited Mr. Kilburn's farm, and found him engaged in his hay field, as 

 he thinks his earliest cut bay is the most valuable for making milk. 

 His farm contains 122 acres, about 20 of which is wood land. His 

 crops were looking well, and had been well tended. One acre of win- 

 ter wheat upon land broken up the previous August, and upon which 

 he spread 16 loads compost manure and 160 lbs. phosphate, gave prom- 

 ise of a large yield. He has been very successful in raising winter 

 wheat, and thinks it worth ten per cent, more than spring wheat. For 

 corn he spreads his manure, and applies 250 lbs. phosphate to the acre, 

 in the hill, and intends to put just 25 bills to the square rod. He has 

 some low land subject to early frosts, upon which he raises buckwheat, 

 and considers it a valuable grain, particularly for fowls. He has a 

 large amount of muck, which he uses in various ways for manure, and 

 thinks it valuable. One feature in Mr. Kilburn's farming is worthy of 

 note. He has kept no swine for five years, thinks it costs him twenty 

 cents per lb. to make pork; and that the refuse from the kitchen pays 

 much better when fed to poultry. He has six swarms of bees, and 

 one spring took from his hives 200 lbs. of nice honey. Mr. Kilburn 

 is a working man, and although three score and six yeais old, is full of 

 enthusiasm for the future, and we think him one of the men who make 

 farming pay. 



AVe also called on Mr. Simon Black, who has a farm of 112 acres 

 not entered for premium, but by request we visited it. and although it 

 has been in his possession only about three years, has made some val- 

 uable improvements. He thinks he has doubled the capacity of his 

 pastures by the use of plaster, and the appearance of his ten cows 

 showed that it was a paying operation. He has also improved his low 

 grounds by ditching, plowing, removing stones, pulling willows and top 

 dressing, and the Committee think that if his zeal for improvement does 



