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Care must be tcaken to prevent the grubs from bridging over, 

 or the gutter becoming filled with leaves. I found this to 

 be a sure thing, if properly attended to. 



This year the trees have not been eaten to injure the fruit. 

 The foliage of the same trees was entirely destroyed in 1870. 

 I shall have from two to three hundred barrels of ijood 

 apples this year, 1872. If any one is interested in my method, 

 I should be happy to give them any information I can, and 

 the trees speak for themselves. 



Thomas Sawyer. 



BoxFORD, Oct. 1, 1872. 



THE HAY-CROP. 



XORFOLK. 

 Statement of A. W. Cheever. 



CHARACTER OF THE SOHL. 



The character of the soil on m}' farm is very much varied, 

 running from the best of drained meadow through several 

 grades of loam up to poor, thin, dry, gravelly knolls, and con- 

 sists of about twenty-five acres in mowing and tillage. The 

 tillasre includes over two acres of orchardins: and as much 

 more in corn-fodder, potatoes and gardens. Some corn- 

 fodder and grass is grown among the trees in the orchards. 

 The remainder of the cultivated land produces one or more 

 crops of hay every year. 



The land has been cleaned almost entirely of rocks and 

 stones that would interfere with the free use of the plough, 

 cultivator and haying-machines. The old stone walls have 

 been removed to the low-land drains, until the whole farm, 

 except seven acres of pasture, is contained in two lots sepa- 

 rated only by a lane leading from the barn-yard to the pas- 

 tures. As the principal crop sold from the farm is butter, 

 and as it is desirable to obtain as large a quantity as possible, 

 it is my aim to make the land produce the largest practicable 

 amount of hay and other fodder, and have it of the very best 

 quality for making rich milk. 



