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the land in this vicinity, and by using a sufficiency of manure 

 I could make each acre give a very large return, especially of 

 grass, and of a superior kind. Land, which, with only a small 

 quantity of manure, will produce from forty to forty-five bushels 

 of rye to the acre, must be admitted to be of good quality, and 

 ought to pay a profit. 



I have said nothing of the ancient house in which I continue 

 to dwell, at a considerable sacrifice of comfort, especially during 

 our long and severe winters. I have attempted, in vain, to dis- 

 cover the year in which it was built. In looking over, however, 

 " Dr. John Elliot's Biographical Dictionary of the settlers of 

 New England," I find a statement by him that it was built by 

 Col. William Dudley, who was the grandson of Thomas Dud- 

 ley, one of the first settlers of Massachusetts, and wlio came 

 over in the Arabella. His father was Governor Joseph Dudley, 

 and he died in 1743. Dr. Elliot, in his life of him, says : " He 

 graduated at Harvard College in 1704, applied himself to the 

 study of the law, but did not incline to enter upon the business 

 of his profession. In a retired spot of the town of Roxbury, 

 he built an elegant house, and cultivated his farm." From this 

 we may conjecture the hoiise was built from 1710 to 1720, and, 

 of course, is now about one hundred and forty-six years old. 

 Several parts of the interior work, tradition says, were made in 

 London, particularly the stairs and banisters, which are still in 

 a good state of preservation. 



Second Statement of S. D. Bradford. 



I beg leave to report, that the quantity of land planted with 

 corn this season, upon my farm, was about six acres. The 

 spring being wet, it was planted very late, and part of the seed 

 having failed, two large fields had to be planted a second time 

 with the Canada yellow corn, which ripens early. The weather 

 was so cold in August, that fears were entertained that the corn 

 would not ripen, but the subsequent warm and dry weather 

 soon removed these apprehensions, and we gathered four hun- 

 dred and fifty-three baskets, in the car. 



I have grown, this season, about eighteen tons of carrots, — 

 the large orange, — on two acres which had been sown with this 

 vegetable in 1854-5, and had produced a large return. I, 

 expected from thirty to thirty-six tons, and impute the dimin- 



