MIDDLESEX SOCIETY. 143 



lar, and covered it three inches thick, giving it a dressing 

 of manure, and sowing it to grass. This has yielded at least 

 three tons per year, at the first crop. During the whole 

 time I have owned my farm, I have purchased one hun- 

 dred and forty dollars worth of manure ; the remainder has 

 been made upon the farm. The labor upon the farm has been 

 performed by myself and one hired man, the year round, and 

 another man, part of the year. About thirty-five rods of heavy 

 wall has been laid, the past year. The produce of my farm, 

 the past year, is as follows : — Thirty tons of English hay, two 

 hundred bushels of grain, nine hundred bushels of potatoes, one 

 thousand pounds of pork ; milk, ^200 ; fruit, thirty barrels, be- 

 side enough for family use. I now keep five head of cattle in 

 the summer, and fourteen in the winter. No ardent spirit is 

 used upon the farm. 



Waltham, September 8. 



Edwin Wheeler^s Statement. 



The whole number of acres in my farm is about fifty, and 

 improved the present year as follows : — About seven acres in 

 English Grass ; three and a half do. potatoes ; three do. oats ; 

 two do. corn ; one do. garden, &c. ; half acre of turnip seed, 

 (from which I had one hundred dollars worth of seed,) and 

 about five do. pasturing. I have five or six acres of bank or 

 brook meadow, and about eighteen acres of river meadow, two 

 thirds of which is partially covered with cranberry vines ; the 

 whole producing but little hay, and that of the poorest quality, 

 barely paying the labor of cutting it. The remainder of it is 

 waste and woodland. 



It is four years last January since I bought the place. The 

 first year the receipts from the place, I think, were not one-half 

 what they have been the past year. At that time most of the 

 walls were half down, and hedged in on both sides with brush 

 and brakes ; these I have cleared up, and relaid most of the 

 walls ; about twenty rods this season. I have reclaimed about 

 two acres of meadow and bank ; the bank part was covered 



