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composition. Mr. Lucy applied the composition three 

 times to his trees last full, and three times a week, for about 

 four weeks, in the spring, at an expense of fifty cents per tree, 

 including labor, and the remedy appears to have been efficient, 

 as his orchard produced, the present season, 350 barrels of 

 apples, although the trees were so much eaten last season that 

 many of them did not blossom the present year. 



In conclusion, your Committee would recommend the So- 

 ciety to offer the premium, in the hope that some cheap and 

 effectual remedy may, ere long, be discovered. 



E. S. Williams, for the Committee, 



FARMS. 



The Committee on Farms submit the following report : 

 Although this Society has for a long time offered generous 

 premiums for the best conducted farm, and in various ways 

 tried to induce the farmers to enter their farms for premiums, 

 yet for the last ten years we have had but few applications. 

 Why is it so ? Different reasons may operate to deter farmers 

 from giving publicity to their operations. Modesty will pre- 

 vent some from making a statement of their farm management 

 to go before the public ; others, who think their way of farm- 

 ing a little better than others', will not make a statement of 

 their operations lest their neighbors should be made as wise as 

 themselves. Some are deterred by the difficulty of making an 

 intelligent statement of their operations ; others, who may be 

 willing to make a statement of their mode of raising some 

 particular crop, do not like to have their whole management 

 made public. Like the merchant who will tell of the profits 

 of some particular transaction, yet he does not like to have his 



