FARMS. 49 



SEPTEMBER TUB BUTTER. 



1st premium to S. G. Mirick, Princeton, 3 00 



2d " " N. Caswell, Fitchburg, 2 00 



CHEESE. 



2d premium to George Miles, Westminster, $1 50 



PRESERVES. 



The Committee recommend the following gratuities for collec- 

 tions of Preserves : 



Mrs. William Woodbury, Fitchburg, $2 00 



Mrs. 0. F. Woodbury, " 2 00 



Mrs. S. R. Damon, Ashby, 1 50 



Mrs. George S. Houghton, Fitchburg, 1 00 



Mrs. George Smith, " 75 



Mrs. A. P. Whitney, • " 25 



JABEZ FISHER, Chairman. 



FARMS. 



The committee appointed by the trustees in 1868, to award the 

 premiums of the society for the best cultivated farms for the years 

 1868, 69 and 70, submit the following as their report: 



In the spring of 1868 there were three farms entered to com- 

 pete for the premiums of the Society, one by Dr. Jabez Fisher, of 

 Fitchburg, one by Ephraim Graham, Esq., of Lunenburg, and one 

 by Cyrus Kilburn, Esq., also of Lunenburg. These farms were 

 visited by the committee in 1868, to ascertain their condition at 

 that time, that they might the better judge of the improvements 

 made during the trial. 



At this visit we learned that the farm of Dr. Fisher contained 

 34 acres, 9 of which are covered with the buildings and with 

 growing wood ; 10 acres are in fruit, and the balance is in 

 grass. The fruits cultivated are apples, 4J acres, with peaches 

 and plums interspersed, 4J^ acres in standard pears with dwarfs 

 between, and 1 acre in cherries with peaches. About 1§ acres of 

 Concord grapes have been set in the pear orchard and are very 

 productive. He proposes to set 2 acres more of the same variety 



