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±KJ ^ PREMIUMS. 



APPLE ORCHARDS. 

 Committee. — Cyrus Kilburn, Ephrsdm Graham, Lunenburg • Addi- 

 son Hubbard, Fitchburg; C. C. Field, Leominster; John Minot, 

 Westminster. 



For the best Orchards of not less than fifty trees, all having been set 

 after January 1st, 1801, to be awarded in 1865, 



1st premium, $25,00 



2d premium, 10,00 



PEARS. 



For the best Orchards of not less than fifty trees, all having been set 

 after January 1st, 1861, to be awarded in J 866, 



1st premium, $25,00 



2d premium, 10,00 



POTATOES. 



For the best seedling Potatoes, to be tested for not less than three suc- 

 cessive years, $25,00 



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 less than five hundred in num- 

 ber, which shall be in the most flourishing condition in the fall of 



1868, 1st premium, $25,00 



2d premium, 15,00 



3d premium, 10,00 



LIVE FEXCE. 



Committee. — A. F. Adams, J. A. Marshall, Fitchburg; Daniel 

 Putnam , Lunenburg. 



For the best experiment demonstrating the feasibility of substituting 

 live farm fence for those in common use ; the entries to be made on or 

 before May 1st, 1863, or whenever afterwards planted, and the pre- 

 miums to be paid in 1868 : 



1st premium, $25,00 



2d premium, 15,00 



3d premium. 5,00 



ICE HOUSES. 

 For the best constructed Ice House for family purposes, to be tested 

 at least twelve months $5,00 



