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Diagrams of separating tank, ditches with connecting 

 pipe and fiekl plots are herewith submitted. 



Charles W. Page. 

 Danvers, Nov. 1, 1893. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ESSAYS AND 

 FARM ACCOUNTS. 



The committee have had an unusual amount of manu- 

 script submitted to them this year, some of which they 

 have been obliged to decline, not because it was uninter- 

 esting, but because it did not come strictly within the 

 rules by which the committee are controlled. The com- 

 mittee find it to be an unpleasant duty to return manu- 

 script which is the result of much thought and labor, but 

 it is necessary to do so when their instructions do net en- 

 able them to accept it. 



The only "Statement" submitted to the committee is 

 that of George A. Rogers, of North Andover, upon ''The 

 Comparative Value of Crops as Food for Cattle." For 

 this valuable paper the committee award the first prem- 

 ium of ten dollars. 



The committee have awarded the first premium of fif- 

 teen dollars to Dr. J. W. Goodell, of Lynn. Under the 

 title of "The Possibilities of Ten Square Rods" the essay- 

 ist teaches the doctrines that in New England, now-a-days, 

 the farmer can obtain better results from a small area, well 

 tilled, than from a large area cultivated in the old ways. 

 This is doubtless true. It has been shown by experience 

 and experiment that, with the use of modern improve- 

 ments in tools and fertilizers, "Ten Square Rods" will 

 yield more profit than was got from the same area in 

 former times. This would certainly be so in a county 

 like Essex, where large markets are near at hand, and the 

 best prices can be obtained for agricultural products. 

 Essex county is now the most populous county in the 



