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Manure spread on furrow and harrowed. 

 Value of same on ground at $5.00 a cord, 70 00 

 Ames' fertilizer, 500 pounds per acre, 16 00 

 Planted May 17, by hand, 16 quarts Nelson pro- 

 lific corn, cost of seed and planting, 3 00 

 Cultivated three times, hoed once, cost, 5 00 

 Shooked last week in Sept., cost of harvesting, 14 00 



Cost of crop per acre, 157 00 

 Amount of crop 80 bushels, 64 pounds per acre. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE TREAD- 

 WELL FARM. 



The Treadwell farm is now without a tenant. By reason 

 of the non-fulfilment of the conditions of the lease to Mr. J. 

 Plummer it was terminated last March, and the committee 

 entered upon, and took possession of the premises, in be- 

 half of the society. 



The farm has since been thoroughly advertised, but on 

 account of the general depressed condition of agriculture, 

 no satisfactory tenant was secured for this year, but an 

 agreement is made to lease it for a term of five years from 

 next April, on satisfactory terms. No attempt was made 

 this season to cultivate hoed crops. Very late in the sea- 

 son the pastures were let to Mr. Chas. J. Peabody at a very 

 low rate, as it seemed necessary to make some disposition 

 of it. 



Mr. Plummer, the former tenant, wished to do something 

 on account of his indebtedness, and proposed to harvest 

 the hay crop without charge, which he did, and there is 

 now in the barn about thirty tons of hay belonging to the 

 society and is for sale, the proceeds of which, together 

 with the rent of the pastures will make the income of the 

 farm about as much as the rent would have been. 



The barns and outbuildings are in good repair, but the 

 house needs shingling and some inside repairs, which will 

 be done before the term of the new lease begins. 



