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REPORT. 



The attention of Mr. Reed in collecting materials for hia 

 compost manure, the preparation of his low ground, by drain- 

 ing, for its reception, and the largeness of his products, being 

 about four tons of hay to the acre, including the second crop, 

 prove his management to have been judicious. But the com- 

 mittee observe nothing in the process which was not already 

 known, though too little practised. Some important materials, 

 also, kelp, rockweed and eel grass left by the tide, are within 

 the reach of only a very few farmers, living on the sea-coast. 

 Nevertheless, as the example of such care, diligence and suc- 

 cess, may tend to excite others to similar exertions, the commit- 

 tee submit to the Trustees the expediency of publishing Mr- 

 Reed's letter, together with their thanks for the communi- 

 cation. 



The like observations the committee think applicable to 

 Mr. Andrews' statement: but his communication being of great 

 length, an abstract of it is herewith presented to the considera- 



lion of the trustees. 



T. PICKERING, 



DAVID GRAY, > Committee. 



DANIEL PUTNAM, 

 January 4, 1821. 



Marhhhead, October 4^ 1820, 



JftEAR STIR, 



For about eighteen or twenty years past I have made a prac* 

 tice of making manure from every article of rubbish and filth 

 that was in my way about my house, wharf, &c. 



About twenty-two years smce, a piece of land came into my 

 possession, containing about two acres of tillage and five acrea 

 of low, moist, flat land, with two water courses passing through 

 it, which met and passed off under a town bridge. The passage 

 under the bridge was narrow and small, which often caused 

 from two to four or five acres of my land to be flowed with 

 water for several days together, and a part of it the most of the 

 year, so that the grass was very poor, some years hardly wortl\ 



