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lection of fruits is large and selected with great consideration. 

 They occupy about eighteen acres, and consist of 900 peach, 

 600 pear and 200 apple trees. This farm was purchased by Mr. 

 Hubbard, but five years since ; he has made daring that time 

 thirty-five hundred feet of face wall on the road, one hundred 

 rods of heavy balance wall, on trenches two feet deep, removed 

 about one hundred rods of wall, built one large barn and made 

 alterations in another, all with a view to the convenience and 

 comfort of the stock and the accumulation of manure. He has 

 reclaimed over twenty acres of low land which was nearly 

 worthless, five acres of which were laid down in August, 1849, 

 from which were cut this year over ten tons of good English 

 hay. He tills about twenty acres, has now about thirty-five 

 acres in grass, besides what he has covered with fruit trees. 

 His tillage and grass lands will be much extended in a few 

 years. When he commenced he cut but thirteen tons of Eng- 

 lish and meadow hay ; this year he cut sixty tons, and in anoth- 

 er year he will probably cut one hundred tons. He employs 

 six men, except during the winter months, and superintends all 

 the work himself. His stock is select, consisting of twenty-five 

 head in all ; of pure Durham, Ayrshire, and mixed. Mr. Hub- 

 bard thinks we should pay more attention to breeding from our 

 best natives. With this stock and his fine Suff"olk swine, he is 

 able now, with a supply of muck, to make a sufficient quantity 

 of compost for his farm. 



On the whole, your committee are convinced that Mr. Hub- 

 bard is a public benefactor. His example will have a happy in- 

 fluence on all who once knew his farm and should now visit it, 

 and we therefore award him the first premium of twenty-five 

 dollars. 



The farm of Aaron D. Capen, in Dorchester, contains thirty- 

 two acres in all. This farm is one of the stubborn kind. 

 Nearly all that he cultivates has been subdued and reclaimed, 

 by filling up and clearing the land to a great extent of boulders 

 of pudding stone. These he has put into substantial stone 

 walls, and subdued the soil by tillage, from which he obtains 

 compensating crops. Mr. Capen has shown what industry and 

 perseverance can do. His mowing lands, consisting of nine 

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