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 PREMIUMS OFFERED IN 1826. 



The Trustees of the Essex Agricultural Society present to 

 the consideration of the Farmers of Essex^ the following list of 

 Premiums, for which they will be happy to find many competi- 

 tors. It is to he understood, where no particular time of pay- 

 ment is specified, that they will be paid the present year, if a 

 suflficient number of meritorious claims shall be presented. 



I. MANAGEMENT OF A FARM. 



For the management of a farm, in its tillage, mowing, orchard- 

 ing and pasturage : 



For the best - - _ ihirty-Jive dollars. 



For. the second best - - - thirty dollars. 



For the third best - - - twenty-Jive dollars. 



For the fourth best _ - - twenty dollars. 



For the fifth best - - - - fifteen dollars. 



For the sixth best - _ *. ten dollars. 



The quantity of land occupied in each of the above branches of 

 husbandry, and its mode of culture — the means and the manner 

 of making, increasing, preserving and applying manures, and 

 their quantities — the respective crops and products — the num- 

 bers, kinds, and management of five stock — and the quantity of 

 labour employed — to be detailed. 



|j-p The above premiums are to be awarded and paid the pre- 

 sent year, to those claimants whose superior management shall 

 entitle them to such distinction. The claims already entered are 

 few. In the hope that the number may be increased, the Trus- 

 tees have extended the time of entering claims until the first day 

 of June next. In the course of that month, the viewing commit- 

 tee will visit the farms of the claimants; and again in September. 

 The Committee are Timothy Pickering and Frederick Howes of 

 Salem, Paul Kent of Newbury, Asa T. Newhall of Lynnfield, 

 Jacob Osgood of Andover, Aaron Perley of Boxford, James H. 

 Duncan of Haverhill^ and John W. Proctor of Danvers. 



