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of Concord, in this county, whose improvements have been 

 remarkable and in the highest degree productive. The land, 

 which has thus been renovated, before his improvements, though 

 almost in the centre of the beautiful village of Concord, would 

 scarcely have brought a retit of 25 cents to the^acre. Those, 

 who would see what magic power there is in skilful cultivation, 

 would find a high gratification in comparing a part of this 

 meadow which now remains in its original state, with that which, 

 I had almost said, Mr. Moore has raised from the dead and 

 adorned with life and beauty. The mode in which Mr. Moore 

 forms his ditches, by making them so wide at top that the slope 

 to the bottom is so gradual that they may be crossed in the 

 summer season with a team without a bridge, deserves partic- 

 ular attention. Here is no heaving of frosts and caving in of 

 banks, or undermining of the edges of the ditch ; and the slope 

 of the bank is so easy that grass may be grown and mowed to 

 the very bottom. 



"In the winter of 1826 I began to cut off the brush from 

 about 20 acres of my farm, lying between the old county road 

 and the turnpike leading from Concord to Boston. In the sum- 

 mer of 1827 I commenced ditching this meadow land by cut- 

 ting ditches through the same about 4 feet wide and from 3 to 

 4 feet deep. In the fall of the same year I commenced gravel- 

 ling about two acres of the same land by carting on about 500 

 loads of sandy loam to the acre. In the spring of 1828 1 sowed 

 these two acres down with oats and grass seed, and had a large 

 crop of oats. I have ever since had a large crop of grass twice 

 every year without any depreciation. On about one half of 

 this land I have never put any manure since it was first sowed 

 down, but it has the wash of the road which does it considera- 

 ble good. I have continued reclaiming more or less of this land 

 every year since, and have already finished about 23 acres. I 

 am doing more at this time, and shall continue to reclaim this 

 land until 1 get the greater part of it done. 



You ask me if I have ever pared and burnt the land. An- 

 swer. I have not ; but 1 have a paring machine which I have 

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