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shows his appreciation of the importance of agricnlture, and 

 tlic interest ho fools in regard to its improvement, by the support 

 he gives to the Norfolk Agricultural Society, of which both 

 liimself and his wife are members. Of course, with the small 

 quantity of land which Mr. Newell occupies no very extensive 

 farming operations can be carried on. He keeps no more stock 

 than is necessary for his own use or convenience. Two cows 

 wliioh he keeps are worthy of notice on account of their 

 ago, one being twenty and the other seventeen years old. They 

 have been kept to this ago on account of their excellence for 

 milk and butter. We had occasion to see and taste butter 

 which had lately been made from them, and its quality was 

 such as to elicit various remarks in its praise. 



The committee made a brief call at the farm of Mr. Kirby. 

 He is an architect by profession, and his business has heretofore 

 been chiefly in Boston. He has lately purchased the farm 

 on which he resides, and is engaged in extensive improve- 

 ments. A neat and tasteful house is ali«eady completed ; new 

 fences, consisting to a considerable extent of handsome stone 

 walls, have been erected ; many shade and ornamental trees 

 planted, and at the time of our visit the barn was under- 

 going a reconstruction, which will render it more spacious 

 and convenient. 



The committee found the premises of Hiram "W. Jones in a 

 condition which plainly indicated that order and neatness are 

 here regarded as fundamental principles. Evidences of a plan, 

 combining convenience and economy, are obvious, from tbe 

 dwelling to the barn, piggery, and poultry house. Space will 

 hardly admit of our going into a particular description of the 

 various buildings. Wc have seldom seen so many objects so well 

 combined in th'e same space as are embraced in Mr. Jones's barn. 

 Being situated on a hillside, it has a basement story and a 

 cellar, both of which are sufficiently dry, light and airy. "Water 

 from an aqueduct which supplies the house, is carried through 

 them. The stock is kept on the basement story, which is so 

 protected that frost cannot much affect it. 



Mr. Jones makes the fattening of calves a business of some 

 importance. They are bought at Brighton, when from a kw 

 days to two weeks old, and are fattened on milk, which they 



