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and some very large grade South Down lambs of his own breeding. 

 He also shewed us a commodious and admirably contrived stable, 

 desio^ned by himself; framed and almost entirely constructed with 

 his own hands. Throughout his constructions and repairs, Mr. S. 

 has well shown with how little actual expenditure of cash much 

 may be accomplished for convenience and economy of labor upon a 

 farm, by the exercise of a little forethought in a wide-a-wake man 

 determined to succeed. 



The farm of Mr. J. C. Dresser, in Scarborough, was the one next 

 examined by the committee. Mr. D. had already during the present 

 season, built a barn for hay storage, upon a forty-acre out-lot; from 

 which lot he intends removing numerous stumps and making them 

 serviceable in fence; he proposes to improve his pasture by removing 

 alders, running junipers, and a scattering scrubby growth of trees, 

 and by draining three of its valleys ; to paint, blind and repair his 

 house ; to erect a shed which shall enclose a pump ; to build a new 

 fence ; to set out trees ; and to improve his live stock. 



The committee then examined the " Track farm" of Mr. Sylvanus 

 Line;, in Scarborough, consisting of about two hundred acres of land. 

 Mr. L.'s chief improvement is to be in the restoration of a peat bog. 

 He had already this season opened drains around and through the 

 centre of five acres, throughout which the water was rushing rapidly, 

 and into which it was observed gushing out from the peat in frequent 

 streams on either side. Mr. L. also designs the improvement of some 

 acres of worn out plains land including a portion of his pasture. 



The committee then meeting Mr. Goodale, by appointment, in 

 Portland, called with him upon Mr. John Reed, in Westbrook, who 

 possessing a natural grass farm, has devoted his attention principally 

 to that crop, and always bound to succeed in his undertakings he 

 exhibited a much heavier burden of excellent and well mixed grass 

 than the committee observed any where else in the county. It was 

 a question, raised on the spot, whether it would be possible, by 

 picking out patches of one or two scjuare rods, wherever the grass 

 was thinnest, over the whole farm, to thus obtain an acre which 

 should bear so little as a ton of hay, thoroughly dried and seasoned. 

 Mr. Reed exhibited the marked effects of underdrains laid early the 

 present season. He proposes extending his under drainage very 

 considerably. Upon leaving this farm, the committee traveled leis- 



