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year but one, and that owned and improved by Mr. 

 Martin Johnson of Lunenburg. Mr* Johnson's farm is 

 situated about one-half a mile south easterly from the 

 centre of the town on an eminence, and on both sides 

 of the road leading to Lancaster. His mowing, tillage, 

 garden, and orcharding with the buildings, on the 

 easterly side, the pasture on the westerly side, the 

 whole in but two lots, thereby getting rid of all sub- 

 division fence. All the land on the easterly side of the 

 road is of the first quality. Your Committee visited 

 his farm on the 7th of July. His crops of hay, corn, 

 and potatoes looked very well, also his garden seeds 

 and vegetables, &c. His buildings are good, con- 

 venient, and well arranged for the making and saving 

 of manure. He has commenced reclaiming some of his 

 pasture land by under-draining and plowing to subdue 

 the bushes which we think promises well, and, consider- 

 ing the great improvement he has made on his farm 

 since owned by him, your Committee award to Mr. 

 Johnson the Society's first premium of $15,00. For 

 ten years, at least, previous to Mr. Johnson owning the 

 farm, as is well known to the Chairman of your Com- 

 mittee, the land on the easterly side of the road, being 

 all then in grass, had the following treatment : During 

 that time the owners gave it two or three bountiful top 

 dressings of guano and plaster, (without the applica- 

 tion of any other manure) which produced very large 

 crops of grass. The grass was sold every year and 

 carried off the premises. Many who thought the guano 

 and plaster only a stimulant, prophesied that such 

 treatment would eventually exhaust the land, and 

 it would become worthless; but the fact, under Mr. 



