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a most agreeable and forcible impression. Then again, for present 

 active operation, there may be seen an immense compost heap laid 

 out in the great barn cellar, with a huge muck pile nigh at hand to 

 aid its increase. Devon cattle sorted into different herds, according: 

 to age, sex and destination, and quietly busy men and youths. 

 Every Cumberland County man who visits here, after seeing all this, 

 and more especially if admitted so far into the confidence of the 

 assiduous owner as to have disclosed to him the thouii-htful, intelli- 

 gent management of this domestic concern ; its direction and its 

 cares ; the systematic arrangement of every department ; the sys- 

 tem of farm as well as personal accounts (each man and each field 

 having an appropriate place in the books) must return to his own 

 home with his mind instructed and his heart enlarged. He will, 

 and may without sin, feel proud that his county possesses such a 

 farm and such a farmer. 



On the 24th, the committee examined the farm of Mr. Abram W. 

 Savage, in North Bridgton, near the head of Long pond. Mr. S. 

 was absent from home, but his son shewed that the uprooting of 

 stumps had already commenced in the field this season, and said it 

 was his father's intention to remove the remainder and to make the 

 surface smooth ; to drain a valley there ; to set out an orchard ; to 

 replace poor fence with good stone wall ; to repair his barn, and to 

 construct a cellar under it ; and to make sundry repairs and renova- 

 tions within his house. 



On the 25th, the committee examined the farm of Mr. Alexander 

 Pride, in West Gray. This farm is susceptible of as great improve- 

 ment as any one entered for premium; and Mr. P.'s project is suffi- 

 ciently broad and comprehensive to cover and reach all; it now 

 remains to be proved from his works. His farm has material, in the 

 proper place, to yield immense hay crops; and every rod of the 

 draining and underdraining, which is there the most important part 

 of a well-thought plan, will give him an annual increase in quantity, 

 and a better quality of hay. He purposes besides, the draining and 

 alteration of fences for a better and more economical sub-division of 

 the farm ; improvement in orchards, pasture, stock, and buildings. 



Col. Ebenezer Cobb of Gray, whose lot in the "promised land 

 junior," the committee next examined, has taken hold of a piece of 

 arid and barren plains with such energy and vigor as might put 



