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five bushels each, and have nearly two hundred loads more to 

 apply this fall to my grass lands as a top dressing I have pur- 

 chased the last three years, from forty to one hundred bushels 

 of wood ashes a year, of which, with peat mud, I make a com- 

 post for my fruit trees. I also use a share of my stable manure, 

 composted, for the same purpose. 



I have in corn about three and a half acres for seed, and one 

 acre for green fodder, and three acres of oats. I have this season 

 cultivated my corn and potato fields five times and hoed them 

 three. I sell my milk, and by looking at my book, I find that 

 my cows yielded daily in June, seven and a half quarts each. 

 In July, I reserved my morning's milk, and sold about four and 

 a half quarts daily from each cow. Since then they have 

 averaged about eight quarts daily. 



Of young orchards I have two hundred and fifty apple trees, 

 set in 1847 and '48 ; one hundred and thirty peach trees, set in 

 the same years ; fifty pear trees and twenty cherry, set in 1848 ; 

 and from twenty-five to thirty Isabella grape vines ; and I am 

 now prepared to set out two hundred apple trees and sixty-four 

 cherry, as soon as the season for transplanting arrives. I sold 

 last year, one hundred and ninety-seven barrels of apples, nearly 

 twenty bushels of pears, from fourteen to eighteen bushels of 

 cherries, (at three dollars per bushel,) and a few bushels of 

 peaches. 



My object has been, not so much to sell all I could from my 

 land, as to enrich and make it permanently better. I began with 

 but little ; I have kept out of debt, except the mortgage, and 

 my farm will now, I think, produce twice as much, and is twice 

 as valuable as it was then ; my stock and tools, I know are. 



Westford, ^ept. 6, 1850. 



George Chandler' s Statement. 



My farm contains forty-seven acres, divided as follows : 

 mowing and tillage thirty acres, pasturing nine, and woodland 

 eight; I purchased the farm in the spring of 1838, and took 

 immediate possession. I have since sold from it wood and tim- 

 ber to the amount of ,^702 ; net income of this sale $503. The 

 present amount of growing wood and timber on the farm, is 

 estimated at thirty cords. 



