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season for trees in such a locality, and they evidently need a 

 more thorough culture. 



Mr. Harwood has reclaimed, at different times during the last 

 ten years, eight acres of meadow, upon which he raises large 

 crops of grass, which is quite an improvement, and helps mate- 

 rially to fill his fine new barn. A little more draining could be 

 easily done here to great advantage. The other improvements 

 consist in relaying and making a large quantity of new wall, 

 improving the pastures, and the last year building a fine and 

 substantial barn, which is very conveniently arranged. 



The only hoed crops on the farm were some three acres in 

 the orchard, planted mostly with corn, and a few carrots and 

 potatoes ; this did not show clean culture.. 



A good house would appear to be a very necessary appendage 

 to a farm, and without one no farm can be perfect. The one 

 Mr. Harwood occupies belongs to his mother, but will probably 

 become his at some future time. His stock of horses and cattle 

 looked well. 



Mr. Harwood's improvements'sum as follows : he has built a 

 fine barn, reclaimed eight acres_ of meadow, planted a large 

 number of trees, built a large quantity of stone wall, and 

 improved his pastures. 



We next visited the farm of Mr. Abiel H. Wheeler, of 

 Concord, who is considered a very skilful farmer. The lot 

 upon which his buildings are situated contains about twenty- 

 five acres of land. Most of the soil is a sandy loam, rather 

 moist. Upon this lot there does not appear to have been any 

 material improvements made within the last fifteen years, except 

 planting quite an orchard of apple trees, some ten or twelve 

 years ago, and an asparagus bed of one and one-fourth acres, 

 which is also planted with apple trees, and on the back part of 

 the lot substituting a few under-drains in the place of open ones. 



The apple trees on the asparagus bed are very thrifty, making 

 a very large growtli. Tart of the others are in good condition, 

 though many of them are suffering from some cause unknown 

 to your committee. The asparagus, corn and other crops, 

 show good and clean culture — the apple trees, evidence of inju- 

 dicious pruning, in the large cankered spots where trimmed. 



Upon this lot Mr. Wheeler has a good house, a barn one 

 hundred feet long, with cellar under it, a young apple orchard, 



