ESSEX SOCIETY. 75 



Daniel Adams's Statement. 



I offer for the society's premium, my apple orchard, set out 

 since 1845, and containing two hundred and four trees, on 

 about two acres. The land is a gravelly loam, and somewhat 

 rocky, a small part mixed with clay, and inclining to the north- 

 east, and has been improved as a field for some sixty years or 

 more. 



The field, previous to the year 1845, had been in grass about 

 five years. In the spring of that year I broke up one acre, and 

 manured in the hill, with about six cords of common barn-yard 

 manure, and planted with corn, and obtained a fair crop. 



In the spring of 1846, I spread upon the acre, about eight 

 cords of coarse manure from the barn-yard and hog pen, and 

 ploughed it very fine about the 10th of April, and immediately 

 after set out seventy-six trees in rows, twenty feet apart each 

 way, viz.; forty-two Baldwins, eleven Hubbardston Nonsuch, 

 eleven Danvers Winter Sweet, and twelve Rhode Island 

 Greenings ; most of them two years from the bud, and then 

 planted with corn, except a row of potatoes on a line with the 

 trees. In '47 and '48 the piece was planted with potatoes, 

 and the present year with corn. 



In 1847, I broke up the other acre and set out one hundred 

 and ten Baldwins, two years from the bud, and twenty-two 

 feet distant each way, manured in the hill, and planted with 

 corn, except a row of potatoes by each row of trees, and in 

 1848 and 1849, with potatoes, with about eight cords of com- 

 mon manure to the acre, spread and ploughed in. 



The present year I have set out eighteen trees, Baldwins, 

 which completes the lot. 



Every tree set out both years, lived and grew well. Many 

 of them made more wood the first year, than those of the 

 same age left in the nursery. I have lost seven trees since 

 they were set, viz. : one by the oxen, four by the mice, one 

 by the wood-chucks, and one by the ice, which have been re- 

 placed by other trees. 



The success which I have had in the living and groAvth of 

 my treesj I attribute very much to the manner in which they 



