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TREADWELL FARM. 



The Committee on the Tread well Farm would respectfully 

 make the following report : — 



In accordance with the votes passed by the Trustees and 

 Society, a new barn has been erected on the farm, at a cost of 

 twelve hundred dollars, above the underpinnings — Mr. Brown 

 doing the excavation and stone work for the cellar at his own 

 cost ; the barn having been built on a contract by Mr. John H. 

 Potter of Topsfield — all of which has been performed to the 

 entire satisfaction of the Committee. 



The report of the Building Committee is hereto annexed. 



In consequence of the attention which Mr. Brown has been 

 obliged to give the building of the barn, the farm at large has 

 not had quite as much attention as usual ; but still from the 

 increased amount of fertilizing products arising from the exca- 

 vation of the cellar — the new barn occupying the site of the 

 old — the farm will receive no detriment. 



The report of Mr. Brown is hereto appended, respecting the 

 several experiments instituted by the Committee. They ap- 

 pear to be in favorable progress ; and from the additional ma- 

 nure required and brought on for these experiments, the farm 

 is progressing to a much improved condition. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



R A. MERRIAM, 



ALLEN W. DODGE. 



RICHARD S. FAY, 



RICHARD S. ROGERS, 



DANIEL ADAMS, J- Committee. 



GEO. B. LORING, 



JOHN WHITTREDGE, 



JOSEPH HOW, 



CHAS. P. PRESTON, 



Topsfield, Nov. 17, 1862. 



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