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$200, as the parties making the same, owing to the lapse of 

 time and the c^nge of the times, may not feel bound to pay 

 them, though the Committee cannot speak definitely on this 

 subject. The fund that has accumulated from unclaimed pre- 

 miums, and which hei-etofoi-e has been applied to the increase 

 of the Library, now amounts to $622 50. The net proceeds 

 from the sale of the oak timber cut on the farm last year 

 amounts to $405 25, making together a total of $1027 75 

 available for the purpose of building a barn on the farm. The 

 Committee would propose, therefore — to make up the required 

 amount — the following vote : — 



Voted, That the Committee on the Treadwell Farm be 

 authorized to draw on the permanent funds of the Society, in 

 addition to the fund arising from unclaimed premiums and 

 from the sale of oak trees, hereby appropriated to the erection 

 of a new barn on the farm, an amount not exceeding $300 for 

 the same purpose, to be refunded from the amounts next ac- 

 crueing from unclaimed premiums. 



In accordance with the above vote, which was passed by 

 the Society, at its last annual meeting, the Committee have 

 chosen a Building Committee, consisting of George B. Loring, 

 C. P. Preston and R. A. Merriam, who have been empowered 

 to construct a barn, not exceeding in cost the sum of twelve 

 hundred dollars. The site has been selected, and the contracts 

 will be made immediately. 



The following report of the experiments on the Farm is 

 furnished by Mr. Brown, the tenant : — 



Report of the Experiment on the Application of Manures on 

 the *' Treadwell Farm," the year of 1861, competing for 

 the premiums as offered by the Massachusetts Society for the 

 Promotion of Agriculture, and also by the Essex Agricul- • 

 tural Society : 

 Land selected, level. 

 Amount of land, 2^ acres. 



