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care being taken to place the roots in the same position as be- 

 fore removal. 



The land, which contains about 1 1-4 acres, has received 

 annually about twenty loads of barn yard manure, with the 

 addition of eight or ten bushels of unleached ashes — has been 

 cultivated most of the time — two years it was down to grass 

 and mowed twice each year, and the third year, observing 

 that the trees did not grow as well as usual — it was plowed, 

 and has since been cultivated. 



The trees have been washed once and sometimes twice in 

 a year, in May and in July or August, with a solution of pot- 

 ash, in the proportion of one pound of potash to one and a half 

 gallons of water, which 1 think is as strong as the bark of 

 young trees will bear. 



E. CALDWELL. 



FAKMS. 



Including the question of the greatest net profit from any 

 quantity of land not less than half an acre. 



Committee. — Messrs. Ezra Kendall, Sterling ; Leonard Burrage, Leomin- 

 ster; Joel Page, Daniel Works, Fitchburg ; Ohio Whitney, Ashburnham. 



The Committee have attended to that duty and respectfully 

 report, that but one farm has been entered with the Secretary 

 for their inspection. Their duty has been but too light, for 

 it would have been a great pleasure to have found more en- 

 tries, to solicit their attention. We found the farm of Mr. 

 Abel F. Adams of Fitchburg, duly entered on the Secretary's 

 book for our inspection. Accordingly the Committee, on the 

 5th of Sept., paid their respects to him. After being kindly 

 received by him, we spent the remainder of the forenoon in 

 viewing his orchard and buildings, and improvements contigu- 

 ous to them. With all these we were much pleased, finding 

 them arranged in the most convenient mannner to facilitate 

 the operations for which they were intended, combining utili- 



