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vested. The buck wheat also gave promise of a large yield, 

 but was injured by the frost. The root crops were all good. 

 The greater portion of the land on which the rye was sown 

 was low and wet, causing mucli of it to be thrown out and 

 killed by the frost, in consequence of which the crop was 

 light. The hay crop was below that of previous years, 

 owing to the dry weather preventing the second crop, and 

 the practice of selling hay and grain when it should have 

 been fed upon the farm and the number of the stock in- 

 creased. The crops of the farm should be fully double what 

 they are at present. The soil of the farm is particularly 

 adapted to grass, and the farm might be made one of the 

 best dairy far.iis in the State, if the right course was taken 

 to reclaim the wastes of the pasture and break up and re-seed 

 some of the worn-out pieces of mowing, giving them a liberal 

 dressino- of manure and draininof where it is needed. This 

 will of necessity require considerable outlay, but it will be 

 money well invested. A private individual could not afford 

 to let his land remain in the condition of many acres on this 

 farm, neither can the State afford it, and the sooner every 

 available acre is made to produce a full crop, the sooner will 

 the farm become a credit to the State and a paying invest- 

 ment. A beginning has been made the past season. About 

 fourteen acres of land in the pasture that was ploughed the 

 year before, and left without anything being sown upon it, has 

 been re-ploughed and sovvn to rye and grass-seed, to furnish 

 pasturing where the past year was nothing but smartweed, 

 positively worthless for feed. Besides this, some sixteen 

 acres of the pasture grown up to alders, briers, etc., have 

 been grubbed out and ploughed, a part of it for the first 

 time. This, well-fitted, and sown to oats and grass-seed 

 in the spring, will add fully thirty acres of feed to the 

 pasture. 



The stock of the farm consists of 27 head of Ayrshires, 3 

 grade cows, 2 yoke of steers, 1 yoke of cattle, 1 fine 

 Guernsey bull, — a gifc of Mr. W. A. Reed, of Hadley, 

 Mass., — and 1 Ayrshire bull presented by Ben. P. Ware, 

 of Marblehead, Mass. ; 3 horses, 20 Berkshire swine, 3 

 medium Yorkshires and 1 grade hog, — all of which, with 



