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a few pear trees, and small fruits sufficient for the use of his 

 family. 



We then visited the lot on Fairhaven Hill, some three-quar- 

 ters of a mile from the house. This lot, or a portion of it, 

 twelve or fifteen acres, has recently had the wood cut off. Mr. 

 Wlieelcr has ploughed it, subdued the brush, planted it, and 

 now has it in grass. After it is well fenced it will probal)ly 

 make a decent pasture, but it. is at too great a distance from 

 the home place for convenience. 



Mr. Wheeler's stock of cattle, among which he claims to 

 liave a number of full blood Ayrshires, looked well, and were 

 in good condition, so far as we saw them. 



Mr. Wheeler's improvements are as follows : He has planted 

 an apple orchard, an asparagus bed of one and one-fourth acres, 

 substituted some covered for open drains, and converted a piece 

 of land recently covered with wood, to pasture. 



We next visited the farm of Mr. Samuel Hartwell, of 

 Lincoln, located on the road from Concord to Lexington. This 

 farm contains about fifty acres, a large portion of the land 

 having been leased to different tenants for several years previous 

 to the time it was purchased by Mr. Hartwell. The soil of the 

 upland is a gravelly loam, bountifully supplied with many large 

 and small stones, and would be called a hard land to cultivate, 

 but is particularly well adapted to fruit, of which there are six 

 acres of young apple trees, just commencing to bear. Many 

 of these trees were loaded with very large and handsome 

 apples, and some had a heavier crop on them than we have 

 seen elsewhere, even in this abundant season. There is also a 

 good brook meadow, which produces large crops of stock hay, 

 a few acres of bog meadow, a portion of which has been 

 ploughed, and now has growing on it a good crop of potatoes ; 

 also a few acres of low land, producing grass. 



Mr. Hartwell, as will be seen by his statement, grows various 

 crops, which he sells in Boston ; and, as he imderstands how to 

 grow and put up his articles in good shape, he undoubtedly 

 receives for them a remunerating price. His hoed crops 

 showed good culture, and were in a pretty fair and clean condi- 

 tion as to weeds. The general appearance of the farm was 

 good ; the walls around the different lots were mostly free from 

 brush. Upon the land first purchased by him, arc located tiie 

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