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stumps, and this bears two tons of hay. The other acres av- 

 erage one ton. 



Within three years, three hundred fruit trees have been set, — 

 most of them apple trees of the best kinds, — and one acre more 

 has been set with peach trees. Also twelve thousand nursery 

 trees have been set, and thoroughly cultivated, — half of them 

 have been grafted or budded, and many will be large enough 

 for transplanting next year. All the nursery trees were raised 

 from the seed that was sown in 1845. Five hundred thrifty 

 pear stocks have been set this season, — these were purchased. 



Eight cows are kept at home in summer, and the milk is 

 sold in the village. 



Within three years, one thousand dollars have been expended 

 in enlarging the house and barn, building a wood-house, tool- 

 house, corn-house, a double carriage house, and two sheds, 

 eighty feet in length, to shelter the cattle and manure in the 

 cow-yard. In addition to this outlay, I have built a separate 

 dwelling-house, suitable for a hired man and his family, at a 

 cost of four hundred and fifty dollars. 



At home a lead pipe, of one inch bore, has been laid to a 

 fine well, fourteen rods distant. Through this a copper pump 

 brings water into the kitchen, with the slight labor of a child. 

 The pipe is so good that the water is drawn as easily as if the 

 well was under the house of the depth of twenty feet. The 

 cost of this, including the pump and digging to lay the pipe, 

 was nearly fifty dollars. 



All this outlay will be repaid in the improved facilities for 

 managing the farm, as the whole was founded on the principle 

 of utility. No manure has been purchased, for the produce has 

 all been expended on the farm, and that, in good time, will 

 make the farm rich enough. 



The produce of this farm is not represented as large, com- 

 pared with the number of acres of cleared land. It is not half 

 what it should be, and will be, under proper cultivation. But 

 the farm was much exhausted and run down at the time when 

 I took possession in 1846. My claim is for "betterments.'' 

 I think I have much improved the farm. 



Framingham, Sept. 5th, 1849. 



