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all old trees that were thrifty with scions of pears and apples. 

 In addition, I have put in the smaller fruits, such as raspberries, 

 gooseberries, strawberries, and currants. 



My hay crop, this year, was good ; by careful judgment, I 

 cut over forty tons on less than twenty acres of ground. Of 

 wheat, which is my hobby, I could ask nothing better. Of 

 oats and barley, my crop was satisfactory. Indian corn heavy 

 for the season ; land moist. Carrots small. Sugar beets sat- 

 isfactory. Parsnips, small. Potatoes, twenty-five per cent, 

 saved. Fruits in abundance, excepting apples, this not being 

 the bearing year with my varieties. 



My whole farm consists of seventy-five acres ; say, ten of 

 wood land, thirty of pasturage, and thirty-five of tillage. I am 

 not aware that there is a rod of unproductive land in the farm. 

 My stock consists of fourteen neat cattle, two horses, and 

 twelve hogs, with a full stock of the feathered tribes. 



North Andover, Nov., 1850. 



Reclaimed Meadows. 



Two claims only were entered with the committee, one by 

 John Porter, of Wenham, and one by Calvin Locke, of Ips- 

 wich. Three of the committee visited these meadows the sec- 

 ond week in July, before the grass was cut, although Dr. Por- 

 ter had begun to cut his. The meadow of Dr. Porter was sit- 

 uated within twenty rods of his house, which made it very de- 

 sirable to have something better than litter growing upon the 

 meadow. It was in the form of a basin, surrounded by a bold, 

 sandy, and fine gravelly bank, very convenient for application 

 to the meadow, which could be and is effectually drained. The 

 outlay which has been made upon this piece of meadow, ap- 

 pears to us a judicious one, and one which will amply remu- 

 nerate the owner. The very accurate and explicit statement 

 given by Dr. Porter, will supersede any further remarks from 

 us. He suggests the importance of future attention, which is 

 necessary in all such boggy lands. The natural meadow grasses 

 are inclined to spring up, without future dressings. The com- 



