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COMMITTEES' REPORTS. 



Committee. — The President, two Vice Presidents and Sec- 

 retary. 



For the purpose of inducing the chairman of the several 

 committees to take upon themselves more labor and care in 

 elaborating their reports, the following premiums will be paid : 



1st premium, $10 00 



2d premium, . 6 00 



3d premium, 4 00 



Reports in connection with awards made on the day of 



exhibition, must be delivered to the Secretary on or before 



October 25th. All others on or before November 15th. 



Total amount of premiums offered for 1866, $1477 75 



PROSPECTIVE. 



For the best experiment to determine the economy of 

 growing Indian corn as a part of a rotation compared with 

 grass through a series of six years, the amount of manure 

 applied being the same in both cases, 



1st premium, $25 00 



2d premium, 15 00 



Entries must be made on or before July 1st, 1866. 



APPLE ORCHARDS. 



For the best orchards of not less than fifty trees, all having 

 been set after January 1st, 1866, to be awarded in 1870, 



•1st premium, $25 00 



2d premium, 10 00 



PEAR ORCHARDS. 



Committee. — J. M. Woodbury, Fitchburg; Seth Heywood, 

 Gardner ; J. E. Merriam, Princeton ; D. H. Merriam, Far- 

 rington Mclntire, Fitchburg. 

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