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There are many such lands in Essex County, that might 

 he profitably reclaimed, and your committee regret the 

 evident lack of enterprise on the part of farmers in this 

 direction, from the fact that so few applications are made 

 for premiums, under this head. 



Mr. Mann, with his characteristic energy and prudence, 

 started with the determination to make it pay. While 

 his statement of expense and returns thus far, is not as 

 definite as might be desired, he is confident that it has 

 been a profitable venture. He has had the advantage 

 over many farmers, in an available market for the stones 

 taken from the land. Mr. Mann has in mind still more 

 thorough working of this land. Your committee felt 

 that while great improvement had been made, the con- 

 dition of the land was not up to the standard demanded 

 by the society, for its first premium, but would recommend 

 the second premium of $10. 



Wm. B. Caeleton, Chairman. 



To the Committee on Improving Waste Lands : 



The field which I enter for premium for "improving 

 waste lands " is about ten acres in extent, on the wester- 

 ly side of a high hill, and was all in pasture when I be- 

 gan to work on it three years ago, and about six acres of 

 it was as rough and rocky as most any land in our county, 

 and a part of it covered with a vigorous growth of alders ; 

 altogether it might have kept one cow alive through the 

 summer. 



I have cleared off all the alders and other trees, and 

 cleaned out the stone to the amount of over one thousand 

 perch, or two thousand tons, and teamed them to market 

 in Methueii and Lawrence, distant two and three miles. 

 The stone sold have just about paid for the work of re- 

 claiming, and the crops this year have been two one-horse 

 loads of oat fodder, eleven loads of Hungarian, seven 

 loads of good hay, at least five bushels of beans, and now 



