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29. There are of other kinds of fruit, 70 trees, mostly young. They 

 are of the most higlily recommended varieties of the different kinds, but 

 they have not yet been in bearing a sufEcient length of time to speak 

 confidently of their merits. 



30. No insects have attacked the trees but the borer; they have been 

 cut out and destroyed without materially injuring the trees. My old 

 apple trees have for some years past been affected with the frozen sap 

 blight, which has destroyed several, and greatly injured others. For 

 reasons which I have not room here to mention, I have become impress- 

 ed with the belief that the trouble was caused by excess of water in the 

 soil, and to remedy it, la.st summer nearly the whole orchard was tho- 

 roughly drained, with drains three feet deep. This will test the matter. 

 The apple worm has for two seasons past, destroyed or greatly injured 

 nearly all my apples and ]>ear8. They have been far more destructive 

 to my fruit than to the fruit of others in t!u"s vicinity, who have taken 

 much less care of their trees. The habits of this wonn are not yet 

 known, thoiefore no successful warfare can l-»e waged against them. 



31. The orchard has been cultivated and well manured, cropped with 

 corn, beans, and root crops, not planting near the trees. The trees have 

 been annually pruned, scraped, and washed with lye. They have 

 been occasionally mulched with partially rotted straw. 



31. I have been experimenting, with the variable success that attends 

 all experimenters, for more than twenty years, but the limits of this 

 paper will not pennit entering upon that subject here. 



FENCES, BUILDINGS, AC. 



33. My farm buildings are all of wood ; the dwelling house is two stories 

 liigh, 26 by 30 feet, with wing one storj?^ and a half, 1 V by 20 — wood house 

 ■ttached, IS by 30, with bed room and cook room in wood house; well 

 room attached — 12 by 14; cellar under main i:)art and wing. The 

 grain barn is 30 by 74 feet, with stables in the lower part of 30 feet 

 of it. Grainery 13 by 14, attached to barn. Sheep barn 28 by 74, with 

 loft for hay. Carnage house and horse bam, 30 by 30, with loft for 

 hay; a shed adjoining, 13 by 30, for wagon and tools. Hog- pen 20 by 

 30, with a loft above for corn, and a room below for tools; some tem- 

 porary stables, 14 by 30; and hen house 12 by 12, completes the list 

 of buildings. The dwelling house, horse barn, and hog-pen, are painted. 



