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soils best suited to their nature ; in better and more convenient 

 houses — including dwelling house, barns and other buildings — 

 which are generally well painted, and kept in neat order and good 

 repair ; in better fences ; in a greater regard to the beautiful as 

 shown in the growing of ornamental trees and shrubs, and also in 

 having tasty front yards and good vegetable gardens. Cellars and 

 sheds for the protection of manure, are common, and barns are now 

 seldom erected without one or the other. The character and value 

 of the sheep, horses, and neat stock, has largely advanced, and 

 Somerset can now produce as good specimens, in each class, as can 

 be found in any other county in the State. There are, however, 

 many defects to be remedied, and many errors to guard against, 

 which I shall attempt to point out hereafter, satisfied with the 

 present upward tendency of the great mass of our farmers as 

 being in the right direction, and as leading, ultimately, to a more 

 perfect success. 



I give, below, the statistics of the agricultural productions of the 

 county, as furnished by the census of 1850. 



Table 



Shoiving the amount and value of the Agricultural Products of Som- 

 erset County, Maine, according to the Census of 1850. 



