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To the politeness of Mr. G. Warren of Saccarappa, we are indebted 

 for an hour's pleasant ramble over his premises. His teams of 

 horses and oxen are such as any farmer may be proud to own. The 

 arrangement of his barns and stables, for the comfort of his stock, 

 and making and preserving of manure, are good. His garden is large 

 and -well kept. His fields are apparently in good condition. His 

 fruit trees, however, of which he has many, and a choice selection, 

 are looking badly — like most other fruit trees in the county — from 

 the effects of a hard winter ; yet on the whole, this farm will com- 

 pare favorably with any in the county. 



Passing near the State Reform School, in Cape Elizabeth, we 

 took the liberty to intrude ourselves upon the superintendent, Mr. 

 Lincoln, by whom we were pleasantly received. We found him 

 overseeing the construction of a brick-yard, a new branch of industry 

 which he is about introducing for his numerous family of boys. The 

 farm, from a general view, which was all our time allowed us to 

 take, under its present judicious management, gives evidence that it 

 is steadily improving in appearance and in its ability to produce 

 remunerating crops. The bushes, ferns, and water grass with which 

 the pastures were nearly overrun, are being gradually subdued. 

 The old worn out fields are in process of renovation. A system of 

 underdraining has been commenced, by which some boggy, worth- 

 less, unsightly swales are made productive land. The garden and 

 five acres in roots look well. The corn and potatoes — seven acres 

 of each, we did not see. Young fruit trees here were considerably 

 damaged by the winter. The barn is very well arranged for the 

 economising in labor in housing and feeding out crops, for the com- 

 fort of stock, for preserving manure, &c. After taking a view of 

 the school building, the assembling of the boys to dinner, &c., of 

 which we do not propose particularly to speak, we left, only regret- 

 ting that the institution is not sufficiently endowed to enable the 

 superintendent to mak j of this a tnodel farm ; and of his boys, by 

 a thorough course of instruction and training, model farmei's. 



We are unwilling to close this report — already too long — without 

 addressing some suggestions to our brethren of the hoe and fork — 

 the more especially, as our minds have been forcibly impressed by 

 observations made while passing through the county, in the dis- 

 charge of our duty. 



