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On the upland, I set out, in the spring of 1847, about 200 

 young fruit trees, consisting of apple, pear, peach, cherry, plum 

 and quince trees, and cut about six tons of hay. This year, I 

 have planted in all, ten acres, and cut twenty tons of hay. 



In 1848, I built a house thirty-two by twenty-four feet, and 

 nineteen feet post, an L thirty-two by seventeen feet, and four- 

 teen feet post, and a barn forty feet square and seventeen feet 

 post, with a cellar under the same ; the whole cost, with well 

 and fence, ^3,400. 



I kept last winter, thirteen cows and a horse. The income 



from the milk of ray cows last year, was - $700 00 



Potatoes sold last year, - _ _ 200 00 



Expenses. 



Leaving a balance of - $370 00 



Lexington, Sept. 2, 1850. 



William Wheeler^s Statement. 



My farm contains about eighty-five acres, mostly of upland, 

 of a strong soil. When I came upon it in 1836, it was very 

 much run down. The walls were very low and in a poor con- 

 dition, and generally flanked with brush and briars from one to 

 two rods in width. These I have dug up and exterminated ; 

 the old walls I have topped out with stone, and doubled up over 

 one hundred and eighty rods of it. I have built over one hun- 

 dred and ninety rods of good single wall, taking most of the 

 stones for it from the mowing lands, besides removing ninety 

 rods of old wall and numerous stone heaps from the mowing 

 land. I have also new set the wall on one side of the road, and 

 partly on the other. 



In 1836, the mowing lands consisted of seven to eight 

 acres, and produced about as many tons of hay of an inferior 



