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entirely reliable and strictly true, and your committee 

 would recommend that the premium of fifteen dollars 

 ($15) be awarded to Mr. Luther P. Tidd of Georgetown. 



Signed. O. S. Butler, 



Geo. S. Perry, 

 Charles Hazeltine. 

 Committee. 



STATEMENT OF LUTHER P. TIDD. 



The piece of land that I have entered for premium con- 

 tains one acre and one hundred and fifty-three and one- 

 half rods. It was soft bog meadow and produced a crop 

 that was worth little or nothing more than the cost of 

 making. It was worth not over six dollars an acre. From 

 a bank a few rods from the meadow, was carted two thou- 

 sand loads, composed of sand, gravel and loam. Ten 

 cords of common stable manure were spread on the lot, 

 and harrowed in. The 15th of July, 1885, it was sown 

 with grass seed, and harrowed in with a brush harrow 

 and roller. 



Last year, 1886, from the above described lot, was cut, 

 by the estimate of good judges, seven tons of hay, besides 

 one ton rowen or second crop. The year 1887, was cut, 

 by estimate, three and one-half tons of hay, and one ton 

 rowen. 



EXPENSES. 



Carting two thousand loads gravel, $180 00 



Ten cords manure, at $7 per cord, 70 00 



Grass seed, 5 00 

 Sowing, harrowing, and rolling in the grass seed, 5 00 



Value of the land previous to reclaiming, 12 00 



Cost of cutting and curing the hay of 1886, 24 00 



Cost of cutting and curing the hay of 1887, 13 50 



$309 50 



