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PJ1MIUM8. 



EXPERIMENTS 



Commit tee.— Alfred Hitchcock, of Fitchburg • James Putnam,'of 

 Lunenburg ; W. Gr. Wyman, of Fitchburg. 



All entries must be made at least one week before commencing the 

 Experiments. 



Therejwith be placed at the disposal of the Committee for the best 

 and most reliable Agricultural Experiments, made in 1863, the sum 

 of $50,00. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



Committee. — Loriston Stock well, I. B. Woodward, Abel Marshall 

 of Fitchburg. 



In accordance with the requirements of the Board of Agriculture, 

 there will be paid for the most thorough, exact and reliable experiments 

 upon the proper depth of applying manures, three premiums, as follows : 

 • , 1st premium, - $25,00 



2d premium, - 20,00 

 3d premium, - 15,00 

 These Experiments must have been commenced in 1861, and con- 

 tinued through a rotation of three years. 



FOREST TREES. 



Entries must be made on or before the first day of June. 



For the best Plantation of any kind of Forest Trees, suitable for fuel 



or timber, raised from the seed, not )ess*than five hundred in 



number, which shall be in the most flourishing condition in the fall 



of this year, - - - - 1st premium, - $25,00 



2d premium, - 15,00 

 3d premium, - 10,00 



TOWN HALL. 



No article intended for the Hall will be entitled to a premium, unless 

 it shall have been deposited by one o'clock, P. M., on Tuesday, from 

 which time the Hall will be occupied by the Committees exclusively, 

 until half-past six o'clock, when it will be opened to the public for the 

 evening. Admission fee, 10 cents ; Season tickets, 25 cents. 



