Q2 CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 



mill which detained the zealous business agent, Mr. Fales, and Mr. 

 Hammond, who resides on the farm, was also absent. But the com- 

 mittee learned that the intention was to underdrain thoroughly, and 

 otherwise generally improve the farm. After a pleasant hour's in- 

 spection of the beautiful place, including the examination of some 

 fine Jersey neat stock, grade and thorough bred, among the latter 

 an imported cow of unusual size for that race, and with a thoughtful 

 glance over the way to the new establishment for putting up sweet 

 corn in hermetically sealed cans, being erected by Mr. John Jones 

 upon the site of a similar one destroyed by fire, which is to furnish 

 (as the other did) a convenient market for neighboring farmers, 

 your committee passed to the examination of the farm of Messrs. 

 Solomon and Edward Cloudman, in Gorham, calling on the way to 

 invite Gen. Edward T. Smith, of the Executive Committee to aid in 

 the subsequent examinations. 



The Messrs. Cloudman propose constructing a new barn with cel- 

 lar, &c.; new farm implements; an improvement in live stock; a 

 general clearing off of bushes ; and, above all in importance, to break 

 up the present encroachment upon their land, of water from the 

 Presumpscot river and from the hills, by underdrains where practi- 

 cable, otherwise by open ditches, and a thorough system of high, 

 narrow beds. 



The farm of Mr. John Yates, in Standish, was next examined, the 

 visiting party being increased by the accession of another member of 

 the Executive Board, Mr. Theodore M. Bradbury. Mr. Yates has 

 put upon himself an immense amount of work ; clearing olf bushes 

 from eight acres of pasture ; building stone wall ; moving walls for 

 bettering the shape of fields ; removing granite boulders; improving 

 a wet meadow which requires a very long drain ; carrying water from 

 a spring to his house and barn ; new barn ; new fences ; and under- 

 draining in orchards and fields. Mr. Y.'s farm consists of more than 

 two hundred and fifty acres, and he carries his thought of improve- 

 ment over pretty much the whole. 



Mr. Frederick Lowell, also of Standish, purposes a general im- 

 provement of his farm, in part by the systematic drainage of about 

 five acres of a very wet hill side field ; by clearing a rough and bush- 

 covered pasture, &c., &c., including withal a particular regard to 

 the advancement of his live stock. Mr. L.'s underdraining is in one 



