REPORT ON FARMS. 



The President and Secretary who visited Mr. Solomon Walrath's 

 farm, the only farm, they regret to say, offered for the premiums 

 of the Society, respectfully report : 



That they visited Mr. Walrath's farm, situate in Canton, St. 

 Lawrence county, on the 22d and 23d of July last. Mr. Wal- 

 rath's farm contains 60 acres. He came into possession of this 

 farm fifteen years since, when the country was an unbroken wil- 

 derness, and no road but that cut as he progressed to the farm. 

 The land, like that section of the State generally, was very 

 heavily timbered. 



We found the farm in a very good state of cultivation; the 

 stumps of the trees removed from the cultivated fields, and the 

 farm divided into convenient lots with stone fences, to a consid- 

 erable extent, and with an excellent farm house, painted and 

 finished in a manner that would not suffer with the best cottage 

 dwellings in the larger villages of the county. 



In laying his stone walls, Mr. Walrath places his drains under 

 them, so that the work is much cheaper done and the walls are 

 benefited by having the moisture removed. The stones from the 

 farm (and there were many,) were all removed, and mostly 

 placed in the fences. 



The soil generally is gravelly; about ten acres of muck swamp 

 on the banks of the stream through the farm. This is the manure 

 reservoir, which is used in com}K)St with the barn yard manure 

 as needed, and the crops show that this part of the farmer's appro- 

 priate work had not been overlooked. 



Mr. Walrath cultivates hops to a considerable extent, and we 

 have seldom seen finer fields and in a more cleanly condition than 

 those upon Mr. Walrath's farm. We saw many fields of ho})s in 

 our passage to Canton, but none that compared with Mr. Walrath's. 



