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buildings, which consist of a good substantial house, when first 

 purchased very much out of repair, and two old barns, then 

 not very convenient, but now in good comfortable repair. 

 Every thing about the house and barns seems to be kept in a 

 neat and orderly manner. 



The improvements that have been made are repairs on the 

 buildings, rebuilding and removing walls, planting fruit and 

 ornamental trees, draining lowlands and uplands, and increas- 

 ing the general productions of the whole farm, all of which 

 has been done within five years. 



Mr. Hartwell is a very energetic young man, and undoubt- 

 edly would accomplish as much as any one on his place with 

 the same means. His answer to question No. 25 is very 

 explicit and satisfactory. While Mr. Harwood does not answer 

 the question except as to net profits, he gives his income and 

 expenditures, but does not state what his income is from ; and 

 for aught we know, it may be the result of speculations in 

 stock, real estate, or income from some other source than the 

 farm. 



The answer given by Mr. Wheeler to the same question, 

 shows for receipts i|2,190 ; for expenditures, $180 ; to which 

 there is a note added, stating that he has sold wood sufficient 

 to cover the other expenses, such as groceries, tools, blacksmith 

 bill and repairs of various kinds. Now it is certahily very con- 

 venient to have eighty-eight acres of woodland to pay expenses 

 with, but such a reply does not afford us any light on the sub- 

 ject, or answer the question proposed. It seems by his state- 

 ment, that there has been only twenty dollars expended for the 

 general work on the farm, and fifteen dollars for the special 

 object of digging drains during the past year. He also states 

 that he has worked on highways, and away from the farm, to 

 tiie amount of forty dollars, which would convey the impression 

 to the reader that he has received five dollars for labor more 

 than lie has paid out, and at the same time and with the same 

 labor, secured the whole crop of his farm, amounting to f 2,190, 

 and cut and teamed all that wood to pay bills with besides. 

 But the facts are probably, that, in addition to his own work, 

 his sons, who are of age, have done a large amount of labor, 

 which would have cost him quite a sum of money, and should 

 have come into the estimate ; otherwise, the statement on the 



