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a crop as any which grows upon his farm. I apprehend this 

 is owing to abundant manuring, and clean cnUivation for the 

 crop that precedes it, and to the excellent condition of the land. 

 It is spring wheat, and generally sown after corn. He chooses 

 to get the seed in early in April. 



The farm of Mr Phinney every where displays energy, judg- 

 ment, and skill ; courage to conflict with obstacles and perse- 

 verance in subduing them. The sole object is profit ; every 

 thing therefore is managed in the most frugal manner consist- 

 ent with the proper accomplishment of the object in view. 

 His farming, on this account, may be recommended to the poorest 

 farmers as an example, as it shows them v/hat may be accom- 

 plished under discouraging circumstances ; and the means with- 

 in reach of those, whose circumstances are restricted, of con- 

 verting their now profitless lands into the most productive 

 fields ; and demonstrating under what circumstances in agricul- 

 ture labor and capital may be amply compensated. 



2. John P. Cushing's farm and gardens present a beautiful 

 example of the management of land under the most liberal ex- 

 penditure of capital without regard to profit. Every thing will 

 be found in this place in the highest order, and the crops are 

 abundant and of excellent quality. Mr Cushing's experiments 

 with various manures, have been already detailed, and the con- 

 tinuance of such experiments, if conducted with exactness, 

 must prove of the highest benefit to the agricultural communi- 

 ty. Mr Cushing's improved stock are singularly beautiful. 

 They have been imported at great expense ; and with the most 

 honorable liberality and public spirit, he has sought to advance 

 the general interest of the farmers by the gratuitous distribution 

 of their progeny in different parts of the Commonwealth. I 

 have no interested motives, thank Heaven ! to flatter any man ; 

 and I express only my own honest convictions in saying that I 

 know no more beneficent use of wealth than in the encourage- 

 ment of honest labor ; in showing what art and skill can do in 

 embellishing and rendering the earth productive; and in the 

 introduction and liberal diff"usion of valuable seeds and useful 



