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season for weeding onions, three extra boys. Besides this, 

 one man is constantly employed on the milk route. 



The land is exceedingly well adapted to the raising of hay 

 and vegetables. The soil is somewhat varied in different lo- 

 calities, — in some places a dark loam upon a clayey bottom ; 

 in others, a light, warm, friable soil. It is also very well 

 situated as to the influences of the sun and moisture, needing 

 no draining, and still capable of resisting droughts. 



Most of my marketing is in Boston, though the early vege- 

 tables are generally sold in Salem. 



In giving this brief statement I have endeavored to confine 

 myself to a plain and simple report of the character and capa- 

 bilities of the Derby Farm ; and if I have ventured upon 

 giving any inferences, they are only such as are founded upon 

 my own personal experience, and therefore have with me the 

 force of actual facts. 



MANURES. 



The Committee have only one entry for the premium oflEered 

 three years ago for an experiment, extending through three 

 years, to determine the proper depth to cover manure to pro- 

 duce the best results. B. P. Ware, of Marblehead, has taken 

 great pains in the experiment, as his statements will show, to 

 arrive at a true result ; and this result he finds to be about 

 four inches. Of course, each one will form his own con- 

 clusions on reading these statements, and make all proper al- 

 lowances for a difference of soils and seasons. 



As the experiments made have involved a good deal of la- 

 bor and patient noting of details, and as it is an experiment 

 of the highest value to the farmer, we award him the first 

 premium of $25.00. 



Allen W. Dodge, William Little, Enoch Wood, Committee. 



