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FARMS. 



The Committee on farms submit the following report. 



There were but two farms entered, only one in 

 season to bo entitled to a premium; that of Mr. 

 Nathaneil Hartwell in Shirley. This we visited on 

 the 3d of July, and found Mr. H. ready to show us his 

 farm with the growing crops. It contains about eighty 

 acres of land, some of it good and some poor ; about 

 seventeen acres of it is in mowdng and tillage, which 

 was taken good care of mostly by his own labor. He 

 has made good improvements on his farm by destroying 

 the brush, laying stone wall, draining his low ground 

 both with open and blind ditches, and hy blowing some 

 of his large stones, and sinking others so low as not to 

 interfere with the plov/. 



On the 13th of September we again visited said 

 farm, the hay crop had been secured, most of the corn 

 and potatoes looked well, one piece which had been 

 planted with corn for six or seven years in succession 

 and manured with 200 lbs. of guano to four loads of 

 meadow mud to the acre, well mixed and put in the 

 hill ; looked well in July, but in September showed that 

 the deposits had been over-drawn; a part of the piece 

 manured and treated in the same way had a good crop 

 of English turnips on it. Mr. 11. was careful to save 

 all of his manure and apply it to the soil at the rio-ht 

 time and place. We were politely entertained by him 

 and his very worthy help-meet, and consider him en* 

 titled to much credit for his skill and industry in 

 managing his farm so as to make it profitable. 

 We were disappointed in not finding in his statement 



