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best varieties of these fruits; five or six of pears, twenty of 

 peaches, seven or eight of cherries, and four or five of phtms. 



29. Various insects common to this country have depredcited 

 upon the fruit trees; the most troublesome of all. is the common 

 apple tree worm. Strong soap suds applied by means of a piece 

 of sheep skin with the wool on, attached to a pole, is the most 

 effectual means of destroying them. K j^. . 



30. My general management of fruit trees is, to prune them 

 annually, keep them free from insects, and see personally to the 

 selection of scions for grafting. 



31. I have applied leached ashes to wheat, grass, and corn 

 land, without being able to see any benefit. 



32. Besides the mansion house, I have four houses occupied by 

 men that work on the farm. Two of these houses have barns 

 connected with them. In a central position is a grain barn, filty- 

 four feet long and forty wide, twenty feet high with a stone wall 

 under it — making; a oranary and sheds. Near the mansion house 

 are the hay barn, sheep barn, and a grain barn fifty-tour teet long 

 by thirty-four wide. Basement stories to all these buildings, fur- 

 nish sheds and stables for the stock; so that every animal I win- 

 ter, is fed all the valuable food in a rack or manger, and under 

 cover. 



Besides these buildings, is the wagon-house, forty-two feet long, 

 with a basement under it ; and the tool-house, carriage-house, 

 corn-house, milk-house, smoke-house, ice-house, hen-house, &c. 

 My yards around the buildings near the mansion are all supplied 

 with water in tubs, sent there by a powerful force pump under 

 the mill, driven by the same wheel- that grinds the feed and saws 

 the wood. 



33. The common fence on the farm is posts and boards, the 

 posts set three feet or more in the ground. Of red cedar posts I 

 have about three miles — and of other timber for posts, about two 

 miles. I have something more than a mile of stone wall, made 

 from stone quarried from the quarries mentioned. These walls 

 are built four feet ten inches high, two and a half feet thick on 

 the ground, and eight inches thick on top, having the same slant 

 on both sides, and laid straio-ht and strong. This fence costs me 

 $l.oO a rod, and I build fifty rods or more every year, upon a 

 system of fencing that in time will put an end to further expense. 

 The board fence costs 88 to 100 cents a rod. There is a consid- 

 erable portion of my fences of rails, mostly cedar, but no new 

 rails are made. As to the condition of my fences, I would re- 

 spectfully refer to the report of the committee on farms for this 

 year, for the county of Onondaga, a copy of which report is at- 

 tached. 



34. Most of my fields have been measured, but sometimes more 



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