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up for market, from 500 to 700 barrels. On a farm in Woburn, 

 which has been almost created by the labor of its present pro- 

 prietor, now in a green old age, enjoying the fruits of his in- 

 domitable industry, the sales of apples the year before the last 

 amounted to 1200 dollars. There are other farms, where the 

 product in fruit is greater than here, but as I have not the pre- 

 cise accounts, I do not state them. These results may surprise 

 many of the farmers in the interior. I hope they will surprise 

 them into the imitation of such industry and enterprise. To 

 many of the farmers in the interior, the extension of the rail- 

 roads will afford, in this matter and in many others, an oppor- 

 tunity of coming into equal competition with the farmers in 

 the immediate vicinity of the capital. There are new reasons 

 for the cultivation of apples since their value for the feeding of 

 swine and cattle has been discovered. If they are only 

 half as valuable as potatoes, and many farmers deem them of 

 equal value for this purpose, the ease with which they are raised 

 strongly recommends their cultivation. 



There are many orchards in Middlesex of large extent and 

 in excellent condition. Two were some time since the subjects 

 of premium from the Massachusetts Agricultural Society. The 

 one belonging to Nahum Hardy, of Waltham, who reclaimed 

 eight acres of land from a wild and rude state, and planted it 

 with 500 apple-trees, all engrafted fruit ; the oiher of E. Phin- 

 ney, of Lexington, who brought a rough piece of land into a 

 suitable condition and planted it with 400 trees. Both these 

 farmers have extended their cultivation since that time, and the 

 admirable condition of their trees evinces the skill and care of 

 their management. The product of the orchard of the latter, 

 makes a large item in the returns of his farm. He has more 

 than a thousand trees in bearing. 



Mr Phinney saved some of his trees a few years since by a 

 process which is worth recording. They had been completely 

 girdled near the ground in the winter by the mice, who had 

 eaten the bark round to a width of two or three inches or more. 

 By cutting scions, and inserting the ends of several of them 

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