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value, add providing it is all eaten. The committee in 

 this case saw it fed, and were pleased to know that the 

 cows eat it all up. The stock on the farm consists of 16 

 cows, 5 heifers, uae bull and 2 horses. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Benjamin P. Ware, Chairman. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING 

 WET MEADOW AND SWAMP LANDS. 



The same committee has been reappointed by the society 

 for two or three years in succession. 



There appears to be at present, very little interest in 

 this important subject — either by the committee, or the 

 farmers at large throughout the county. There have been 

 but two entries made during the last two years, both be- 

 ing by Maurice H. Connor, of West Newbury, for a piece 

 of about five acres of wet pasture or swampy land very 

 near his house. The chairman made several efforts to 

 get the committee together to examine this land in 1892 — 

 but no one appeared except Mr. E. Francis Holt of An- 

 dover. We did not feel authorized under the circum- 

 stances to make any award last year, but this year, as 

 Mr. Connor entered the same lot again, and as no one ap- 

 peared but Mr. Holt and myself, we thought it advisable 

 to call in a neighbor to our assistance, when we three 

 concluded to award to Mr. Connor the Society's first pre- 

 mium of fifteen dollars. As your chairman is a near neigh- 

 bor to Mr. Connor, he invited Mr. Holt to make a report, 

 which he very kindly did, as appears below. 



STATEMENT OF MAURICE H. CONNOR. 



The piece of meadow which I enter for the society's 

 premium contains about four acres. The soil is a dark 

 loam, with a clay and sand subsoil ; and was when we be- 

 gun operations upon it, about six years ago, one of the 



