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and oats, is used to renovate grass land ; in the meadows, winter 

 rye and grass seed are sown, after taking off the croji of hav, 

 which is the cliief " sale crop." 



The buildings on the farm arc vcrv substantial and con- 

 venient. Tlie barn is one hundred and twenty feet in length 

 by forty-two in width, with two wings, each eighty feet in 

 length, one of Avliich is connected vrith the house. It has a 

 basement story of stone, containing the stables, root-cellar, 

 hennery, cider mill, and hay press. The horses and cattle 

 stand on stone pavements, witli stone gutters leading to a large 

 manure tank, into which loam is frequently thrown during the 

 summer. The hay is stored in tlie second story of the barn, 

 on either side of a floor two hundred feet in length, upon which 

 ten or twelve loads of hay can stand at once to be unloaded. 

 One wing of the barn contains a carriage house, cart shed, and 

 carpenter's shop, where all the ordinary repairing of the farm 

 is done. The barn-yard is so arranged that the drainage is 

 carried into the tank above mentioned. The stock on the farm 

 generally consists of four oxen, seven cows, and four young 

 cattle, mostly Durhams crossed with the Ayrshire, which cross 

 lias been found to be most profitable for the farm. 



I regret that I have been unable to give a more explicit 

 account of the management and products of this interesting 

 farm. The convenience of its arrangements, the character of 

 its soil, the variety of its resources, all the fruits of patient and 

 methodical labor in time past, render it a theatre for the most 

 successful agricultural experiments. As a specimen of the 

 system of husbandry (the Scotch) which has been applied to 

 it, it is hardly surpassed — the fundamental work having been 

 accomplished, we doubt not the present proprietor will reap the 

 reward. Here, if any wliere, the profits of New England agri- 

 culture may be put to the test. And I doubt not the account 

 of Major Poore's labors will be as interesting as that of his 

 father's, when his residence on the farm shall have 1>een long 

 enough to furnish the opportunity. 



I am truly your obedient friend and servant, 



Geo. B. Loring. 



JIoN. David Choate, Chairman of Essex Com. on Farms. 



