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This lias been duly finished, and also the cellar wall of 

 the sheep barn rebuilt. The chimney of the house was 

 found to be in a shaky and unsafe condition and has been 

 rebuilt from the chamber floor up. Two new pumps have 

 been furnished, and other necessary repairs made, which, 

 in the aggregate, have drawn heavily upon the income of 

 the farm to the society. But little repairing has been 

 done for many years previous, so that necessity required 

 these thorough and permanent repairs at this time. The 

 buildings are now in good condition. 



The committee have respected and cared for the many 

 ornamental trees that the late Dr. Treadwell delighted to 

 plant, and that have greatly beautified the farm ; but a 

 portion of them were in a decaying condition, and such 

 have been cut and sold either for wood or timber, without 

 seriously marring the beauty of the landscape, which the 

 committee are anxious to preserve. The proceeds helped 

 to their extent to lessen the expense of the repairs on 

 the buildings. 



The farm was leased last April 1st, to Mr. J. Plummer, 

 Jr., on satisfactory terms, provided the conditions were 

 faithfully complied with, but which the committee regret 

 have not been as yet. One of which was the conduct of 

 certain prescribed experiments, but his statement of them 

 and of the crops grown upon the farm this season are so 

 unsatisfactory, that it is deemed unadvisable to insert 

 them here. 



For the committee, 



Benjamin P. Ware. 



FARMERS INSTITUTES. 



The Society held eight Institutes during the season of 

 1887-88. The fifth one at Amesbury, was with the Ames- 

 bury and Salisbury Agricultural Society, and the eighth 

 one was a Field Institute, for exhibition and trial of Im- 

 plements used for Cultivation of Crops. All of them 



