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Your committee unanimously came to the conclusion, t 

 Coleman is entitled to the first premium, awarded by the Ameri- 

 can Institute, for the best cultivated farm of fifty acres, 



Kew-York, /an. 1, 1853. 



ALANSOf^ NASH, 



DAVID BANKS, 

 NICHOLAS WYCl 

 JAMES I)E PEYSTER, 



THOMAS BELL, 

 ADONIRAM CHANDLER, 

 John W. Chambers, Secretary. Committee. 



FARM OF JAMES J. MAPES. 



Your committee respectfully report that on the 17th day of 

 July, 1852, they visited the farm of Prof. Jas. J. Mapes, near 

 Newark, N. J. 



This farm consists of about 60 acres of land, 35 of which is 

 cultivated as a fruit orchard and market garden. It is situated 

 on the old Elizabethtown road, two miles south of Newark, N. J. 

 The farm originally had been more or less cultivated for a great 

 number of years, and had become exhausted. The soil of this 

 farm is a volcanic debris, not unlike that which appears on the 

 eastern part ot Rockland county, in the State of New- York. It is 

 a hardpan soil, mixed with many stones broken from a volcanic 

 green stone slate, and a red sandstone. The present occupant 

 has made an analysis of the soil, and as he informed your com- 

 mittee, has gradually added the missing organic constituents with 

 such amendments as renders it retentive of manure and capable 

 of absorbing and retaining the fertilizing gases of the atmosphere. 

 The general aspect of this farm where it has not been cultivated 

 of late, is that of a barren region, and dilFicult to subdue and ren- 

 der productive. All the cultivated portion of the farm has been 

 thoroughly plowed and subsoiled ; indeed. Prof Mapes informed 

 your committee that his fields had been subsoiled in many parts 



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