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1.00. Gratuity, to Hollis Scates, Georgetown, for oil 

 paintings. 

 .50. Gratuity, to Willie Swasey, Newbury port, for 



shell work box. 

 .50. Gratuity, to Ernest and Fred Hood, Salem, for 



calico quilt. 

 .50. Gratuity, to Gertie Carleton, Eowley, for burlap 



rug. 

 .50. Gratuity, to Drussie Brown, Georgetown, for 



lamp mats. 

 There were forty-one entries for premiums. 

 Mrs. G. H. Plumer, Mrs. Bartlett, Mrs. S. Noyes — 

 Committee. 



IMPROVING WET MEADOW AND SWAMP 

 LANDS. 

 The Committee on awards for "Improving Wet Mead- 

 ow and Swamp Land," in submitting their report, beg 

 leave to say, that they are impressed with the importance 

 of the object contemplated in offering the premiums for 

 the most successful of these experiments. Throughout 

 the county, in both woodland and pasture, may be found 

 vestages of once cultivated fields, an evidence of a de- 

 crease in the acreage of tillage land during the present 

 century. It is probable that the rocky moss grown pas- 

 tures could not with the present price of labor be cultiva- 

 ted profitably, but many acres of woodland give evidence 

 by the rapid growth of wood, of a strength of soil that 

 would well repay the cost of clearing and reclaiming. 

 Meadow land long abandoned to hassocks, bushes and wa- 

 ter grasses, which, if properly drained, worked and ferti- 

 lized, will produce a sure and profitable crop of hay, when 

 higher land subject to droughts often disappoints the own- 

 ers in the quantity produced. 



