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gcncc, skill and orderly system by which the well-known results 

 of Mr. Weld's husbandry are produced. This is apparent in the 

 minor as well as in the larger and more imposing objects of 

 regard in the wagons, carts and various implements in use 

 upon the farm, as in the barns, capable of containing a hundred 

 tons of hay, and fitted with every convenience for the care and 

 keeping of stock, and for the manufacture and preservation of 

 manure. It is seen, also, in the fruit-room, most conveniently 

 arranged and prepared for the packing and keeping of various 

 fruits ; in the apartments for vinegar and for cider ; the former 

 filled with some fifty hogsheads of vinegar, in all its different 

 stages of maturity, and the latter containing casks of cider for 

 draught, and boxes filled with bottled-cider for the market. 

 Mr. Weld considers his vinegar fit for use and sale when it is 

 four years old. It is made only of pure apple-juice, and finds 

 ready sale in the market. The cider is manufactured from the 

 best selected fruit, and that of russet apples in preference to all 

 others. In the failure or inferiority of his crop at home, last 

 year, Mr. Weld had a large part of his apples brought from a 

 distance of over five hundred miles. From seventy-five to one 

 hundred barrels of cider are usually made every year. Hardly 

 less famous than the Weld farm cider, is the currant wine man- 

 ufactured here. Several casks of this wine, now three years 

 old, were in the cellar, ready to be bottled and sent to order. 



We also saw orchards and gardens, in which were some two 

 thousand apple trees in bearing condition, and capable of pro- 

 ducing from twelve to fifteen hundred barrels, annually, of 

 selected fruit. A large number of thrifty pear trees, also, in 

 full bearing state, with currants, strawberries and vegetables 

 between the rows, in which they stood. A field of rye had been 

 cut and stacked, which, in our judgment, would yield a superior 

 and very heavy crop. 



The work on this farm is performed, mainly, with horses. 

 Nine horses are kept for farm and carriage use ; and others, 

 from abroad, are boarded here during the winter. Hay is also 

 sold from the farm. About one hundred and twenty acres of 

 the land are under high cultivation, and of the remaining thirty 

 or more upon the farm, a large part is woodland. The whole 

 presents to the eye one of the most beautiful examples of a true 

 New England farm. It has been held and cultivated by several 



