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Mr. Weld having an excellent nursery, which speaks its own 

 praise. The ground is carefully cultivated around all his young 

 trees, well dug up about the old ones, and never sufFered to go 

 to sod about either. 



Mr. Weld has devoted much attention to his meadows, in 

 the improvement of which he has been very successful. The 

 main ditches are kept open, while the cross ditches are nearly 

 filled with stones and covered. He has many acres, which, till 

 recently, were comparatively worthless, from which he cuts an 

 abundant crop of valuable grass. 



He has constantly from forty to fifty swine, fed mostly on 

 sour flour, shorts, corn meal, and such cheap feed as he can 

 procure in Boston. The feed is prepared in vats, where it is 

 fermented or cooked by steam, as is convenient. Vegetables, 

 weeds, rubbish of all sorts, straw and soil, peat and muck, of 

 which last he has an inexhaustible supply, are thrown into the 

 yard, which is a manufactory for manure, that pays a hand- 

 some interest. Mr. Weld says, " that from an accurate account 

 for a number of years the manure is all profits He has 

 " abandoned drawing manure from the city," as he " has real- 

 ized enough from the hay consumed on the place, by boarding 

 horses, and his own stock, and from his hogyards, for his farm- 

 ing purposes." 



His buildings are well arranged, in fact, every arrangment 

 on this place is good ; carts, wagons, haycarts, and farming 

 tools are kept under cover ; here there is a place for every thing, 

 and what is still better, every thing in its place. 



Within the last two years, he has planted by the road side 

 nearly three hundred trees, elms and rock maples ; and he pro- 

 poses planting, as time permits, the whole distance adjoining 

 his estate. This plan we cannot too highly commend, as an 

 example worthy of imitation, not by the agriculturist only, but 

 by the community generally. Estates are benefitted, high- 

 ways and private avenues are improved, and villages are beau- 

 tified, at a cost merely nominal. 



The forbidding appearance of the old schoolhouse is for» 

 gotten because a few trees, tastefully arranged, give it a cheer- 

 ful aspect. The farmhouse wears a new complexion. The 



