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for stock, the true interest of the farmer. Now, instead of raising 

 grass-seed for sale, as formerly, we sow our seed, and raise hay for 

 our stock. The Devon is highly prized, as far as tested. So is the 

 Durham and the Hereford. The county produces large numbers of 

 fine horses. The sheep are very superior and the mutton excellent. 



He presented some statistics of the crops in township letter C, in 

 first range, lying next to the boundary line of New Brunswick, a 

 few miles south of the Aroostook river. Two years ago last sum- 

 mer, this township was surveyed by the state, and at that time four 

 men only had made a beginning in it. Last summer there were 

 thirty who raised crops. Another season this number will be greatly 

 increased by those who prepared their land last summer for their 

 first crop. The amount of grain of all kinds was 12,751 bushels; 

 of potatoes and turnips 3,521 bushels. This, at fifty cents per 

 bushel, which is a very low figure, over 1,000 bushels being wheat 

 and rye, would amount to f 8,137.50. He believed that the crop in 

 the township next season, will be one hundred per cent, greater 

 than last season. There are one hundred good farming towns in 

 the county which are capable of doing as well, and in a short time 

 they will be peopled by the hardy and energetic sons of New Eng- 

 land. For the encouragement of those who wish to settle in Aroos- 

 took, he would say, that there are several townships yet unoccupied, 

 lying along the borders of the county adjoining New Brunswick, and 

 that the state is anxious to give it to actual settlers, while the British 

 are building a railroad along the boundary line which will serve 

 the purposes of the settlers as well as if built (in the same place) 

 at their own cost. 



He spoke of one settler who commenced — a stranger and ignor- 

 ant of the country — in June, 1856. He employed a man to clear 

 forty-seven acres ; the trees were felled and limbed, and in the sum- 

 mer of 1857 the land was burned. May 10, 1858, he sowed five 

 and one-half bushels of wheat on five acres, which produced one 

 hundred forty-three bushels. Oata, two thousand bushels on twen- 

 ty-seven acres. Millet, ten busliels on one-half acre. Buckwheat, 

 one hundred bushels on three acres. Rve, two hundred eight bush- 

 els on eight acres. Potatoes, two hundred bushels on one and a 

 quarter acres. Rutabagas, four hundred bushels on two acres. 

 His land, clearing, interest, labor, &c., cost $1,094. The whole 

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