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and what heals, we hope will command just attention. The pre- 

 mium of $10 is awarded to Dr. Collamore. 



The premium of $8 for the best crop of oats is awarded to 

 Leonard Hill, of East Bridgewater, who raised sixty-three bush- 

 els and three pecks on one acre and five rods. Mr. Hill is also 

 entitled to $8. for the best crop of potatoes. He raised 351 

 24-56 bushels on an acre. 



To George Drew, the premium of $6, for the best crop of 

 white beans. He raised seventeen bushels and seven quarts on 

 eighty-two rods of land. 



For the Committee on Improvements and Produce. 



MORRILL ALLEN. 



Anthony Collamore' s Statement. 



The land selected for the experiment, in the application of 

 compost manure to mowing fields, was a sandy loam, seeded 

 down to grass, I believe, in 1840. It was measured from the 

 middle of a field, and divided into five pieces two rods wide and 

 ten rods long, so that the lots should be as near of similar soil 

 and condition as possible. A heap of compost consisting of mud 

 from the clearing of ditches, in low grounds, and manure from 

 my neat stock as dropped in my barn cellar, in the proportion 

 of one load of the latter, and two of the former, was formed in 

 the spring of 1845, as required by the regulations of the Trus- 

 tees. This was hoed over and intimately mixed before spread- 

 ing. 



A similar heap was formed in the spring of 1846, of the same 

 materials and proportions, excepting that about six bushels of 

 unleached ashes were mixed in when the heap was hoed over. 

 It was required, in the month of April or May, to spread five 

 loads of it, even as possible, on one eighth of an acre ; in July or 

 August, five loads more on an adjoining eighth of an acre ; and 

 five loads on each remaining lot, in the next three months. The 

 Supervisor required that the hay on the lot on which the ma- 

 nure was spread in May, 1845, and on one of the other lots, should 

 be weighed in 1845 ; in the next year, the whole of the produce 



