produce now ia double the amount it was ten years ago. Much 

 however remains to be done, and few farms afford a better field for 

 improvement. Perhaps no farmers in the county have a stronger 

 inducement to an active and enterprizing cultivation than those of 

 Andover ; as no place in the county affords a better market for ag- 

 ricultural commodities. Mr. Stevens has made a great improve- 

 ment in ten acres, of what was formerly pasture land, but so cold 

 and wet and so much covered with bushes, as not to yield feed 

 enough for two cows. The last season the produce of this field was 

 11 tons of English hay of the first quality, 90 bushels of corn, and 

 150 of potatoes. 



The committee recommend that the premiums be awarded as 

 follows : — 



To Daniel Putnam, the third premium, ... ^24 



" Amos Gould, the fourth premium, - - • • 21 

 ** Moses Little, the fifth premium, - •- - - -18 

 " John Adams, the sixth premium, - - - - 15 

 ** James Stevens, seventh premium, - - «- - 12 



The committee were of opinion that no farm offered was entitled 

 to the first or second premium. 



The committee would suggest, as very desirable, that candidates 

 for the premium on farms should in future furnish a more particular 

 and exact statement of the soil, modes of cultivation, different kinds 

 of produce, the labour employed and the amount and value of each 

 crop. The description required by the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Society in their offer of a premium for the best cultivated farm, is 

 recommended to the attention of tho farmers of Essex, who may 

 claim a similar premium for this county, not however as being in- 

 dispensable in every particular, but as a useful guide to them in 

 making their statements. 



Respectfully submitted, by the Committee, 



FREDERICK HOWES, 

 DANIEL ADAMS, 

 JESSE PUTNAM, 

 JOHN ADAMS, 

 JAMES H. DUNCAN, 

 MOSES NEWHALL, 

 JOHN W. PROCTOR. 

 December 28, 1S29. 



