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cal grain I raise to feed, in view of the prices coarse grains usually 

 bring; in market. 



27. There are about two hundred apple trees oa the farm, most of 

 them grafted — spitzenbergs, russets, pippins, &c. — most of the approved 

 varieties. 



28. Pears, peaches, plumbs, cherries, quinces, &c., are raised in 

 abundance for our own consumption ; and we have many of the best 

 varieties of these fruits : five or six of pears, twenty of peaches, seven 

 or eight of cherries, and four or five of plumbs. 



29. Various insects common to this country have depredated upon the 

 fruit trees; the most troublesome of all, is the common apple tree 

 worm. Strong soap suds applied by means of a piece of sheep skin 

 with the wool on, attached to a pole is the most effectual means of 

 destroying them. 



30. My general management of fruit trees is, to prune them annu- 

 ally, keep them free from insects, and see personally to the selection of 

 scions for grafting. 



31. I have applied leached ashes to wheat, grass, and corn land, 

 without being able to see any benefit. 



32. Besides the mansion house, I have four houses occupied by men 

 that work on the farm. Two of these houses have barns connected 

 with them. In a central position is a grain barn, fifty-four feet long 

 and forty wide, twenty feet high, with a stone wall under it — making 

 a granary and sheds. Near the mansion house are the hay barn, sheep 

 barn, and a grain barn fifty-four feet long by thirty-four wide. Base- 

 ment stories to all these buildings, furnish sheds and stables for the 

 stock: so that every animal I winter, is fed all the valuable food in a 

 rack or manger, and under cover. 



Besides these buildings, is the wagon house, forty-two feet long, 

 with a basement under it ; and the tool house, carriage house, corn 

 house, milk house, smoke house, ice house, hen house, &c. A small 

 mill upon the brook grinds my coarse feed. My yards around the 

 buildings near the mansion are all supplied with water in tubs, sent 

 there by a powerful force pump under the mill, driven by the same 

 wheel that grinds the feed and saws the wood. 



33. The common fence on the farm is posts and boards, the posts 

 set three feet or more in the ground. Of red cedar posts I have about 

 three miles — and of the timber for posts, about two miles. I have 



