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hesitate to allow him the precedence. This I know is high, 

 but not undeserved praise. 



I am unable to procure a detailed report of the products of 

 this farm, but its improvements constitute its principal interest. 

 It consists of 160 acres, of rough and hard land, of knolls and 

 peat swamps, which by extraordinary skill and labor, have been 

 converted into a most productive farm, every where exhibiting 

 the triumphs of intelligence and skill, and of labor directed by 

 sound judgment. 



When his improvements commenced, ten tons of hay were 

 the annual product ; now one hundred are obtained. The stock 

 on the farm consists of six horses, three yokes of oxen, twenty- 

 four milch cows, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty 

 swine, and a large flock of wether sheep for fatting. 



I have already given some account of the pork usually fatted 

 on the farm, and the whole method of keeping and fat- 

 tening his swine. The milk is daily taken at the farm by a 

 neighboring milkman. Large amounts of fruit, apples and peach- 

 es, and grapes, and of vegetables, are sent frequently to mar- 

 ket, and considerable amounts of hay are sold. One great prin- 

 ciple, however, is constantly regarded, to consume on the place 

 all the produce of the place, when it can be done without loss, 

 for the sake of the manure. 



The improvements on the farm have consisted mainly in the 

 redemption of the peat meadows, and of these 1 have given a 

 full account. He has, to some extent, likewise practised the 

 irrigation of his lands by conducting water from a pond, which 

 is situated on a high part of his farm, by successive channels 

 on a side-hill through his orchard, and upon a portion of his 

 mowing land. The benefits of this he pronounces very great. 

 The transit of mere spring water, without any intermixture, has 

 the most beneficial eff"ects in quickening and perfecting vegeta- 

 tion ; and many farmers in the State might avail themselves at 

 small expense, of local advantages which they enjoy for doing 

 this, which are now wholly neglected. 



