SECRETARY'S REPORT. 53 



FROM SAMUEL F. PEKLEY. 



" The town of Naples is natvirally best adapted to stock-growing, 

 •and fruit culture. TKg formation is granitic. The surface is consid- 

 erably broken by moderate elevations, somewhat rocky, and abundantly 

 supplied with springs of pure water. Brooks and ponds abound, with 

 a great variety of soil, from the tough blue clay to the clean pond 

 :sand.~" 



FROM WILLIAM R. FLINT. 



" The town of Anson is adapte-d to the varied purposes of farming 

 in this climate. It has a great variety of soil, so that hardly two 

 fiirms, or two parts of the same farm, are alike. The alluvial banks of 

 the rivers and streams of water, which annually overflow their banks, 

 are best for grazing, and the next best are the deep-soiled rolling hills, 

 with occasionally a rounded granite stone and an inclined surface, say 

 from four to twenty-six degrees. It has no extensive bogs or moun- 

 tains, so that not one lot of 150 acres is to be found that will not make 

 a decently good farm for tillage, say from thirty to one hundred acres." 



FROM WILLIAM BUXTON. 



" North Yarmouth is now an inland town, cut off from the sea by 

 the town of Yarmouth. It has a territory of about eleven thousand 

 acres. The land is good, and adapted to all branches of agriculture — 

 the growth of hay, corn, and all the necessaries of life. For the most 

 ■part it is well tilled, and the owners are richly paid for their labor. 

 Some of the land on the banks of Royal's river is as good as any in 

 the State. Wheat does well generally. Grazing and stock-growing 

 is a secondary object Vv^ith the farmers generally." 



Metliod of Husbandry. 

 Ill reply to the second question, as to the principal crops 

 grown, the answers generally give a list embracing most of the 

 crops usually grown in the State. In some instances, promi- 

 nence is given to one or more, as hay, or near the larger towns, 

 market vegetables ; and exactly correspond to the answers to 

 the fourth, relating to the method of husbandry, and whether 

 the farmers devote special attention to any one branch. In 

 some towns special attention is, to some extent, given to a par- 

 ticular crop or product; but more than ninety per cent, of the 

 replies say, that a mixed method prevails; or as one has it, "a 

 mixed method, or more properl}^, no method ,•" or as another 

 practical .farmer writee, from one of the best towns in the State, 



