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so arranged as to insure tlicm the utmost comfort and care, 

 together with cleanliness. The house we found fitted and fur- 

 nished in the modern style of beauty, elegance and comfort, 

 which ought to satisfy any man who knows how to prize and 

 enjoy them, and which, w^e were satisfied from unmistakable 

 evidence, was managed by a presiding spirit, fully competent to 

 the task, whose viands were dispensed with a liberal hand. 

 These buildings, save the small barn, have all been built, with 

 all their appurtenances, by Mr. Adams. His land, mostly 

 extending north from the house, consists of one hundred acres, 

 making his farm extend a long distance from his buildings, 

 consequently greatly increasing the expense of his field opera- 

 tions. Deducting sixteen acres of woodland and two of unim- 

 proved pasture, it has all been thoroughly subdued ])y the 

 plough and divided into suitable and convenient lots by heavy 

 stone wall, including, in the whole, one thousand and fifty rods, 

 making an average of forty-two rods yearly, for twenty-five 

 years, besides carting, by his estimation, stone enough for five 

 hundred more, during the same time. These fields we found 

 throughout, smooth and handsome, though some were very 

 uneven, from being upon a side hill, and most of them supplied 

 with water in troughs. By this judicious arrangement he is 

 enabled to use them alternately, for tillage, mowing, and pas- 

 turing, as his convenience or interest may require. In making 

 all these improvements and alterations in the land, by levelling 

 rough and unsightly, as well as unproductive places, and filling- 

 deep, inconvenient hollows, almost countless loads of dirt must 

 have been used ; yet no scar or hole was visible from whence it 

 came, except where he had built a bank wall from five to seven 

 feet high for some forty rods, in order to make a road to his 

 upper fields. All the rest were covered by walls, or otherwise 

 made smooth and even. In doing all that he has done to bring 

 his farm into such a state of perfect cultivation, he has only 

 made use of the resources of his farm, and made the best of 

 all the advantages within his reach. This is what constitutes a 

 farmer in the most approved acceptation of tlio term, and for 

 tliis, as well as for the neat and systematic manner in which he 

 manages his business, your committee call him a pattern worthy 

 of imitation, and most cheerfully award him tlic premium 

 offered by the society. It will be needless for me to give a 



