The Onion crop, which looked finely early in the season and 

 which had been greatly injured by the cut-worm, was slightly 

 injured by the rot shortly before being pulled and also some- 

 what after pulling. Where the cut-worm destroyed the onions, 

 Ruta Bagas were planted. 



The one hundred and eighteen acres of wood, marsh, pasture 

 and waste land are capable of much improvement, which can 

 be brought about by light expense, with time and patience to 

 help me. 



I am at present mailing considerable improvement on the 

 highway which runs througli the farm, by grading and filling 

 and building new walls, which will advance the appearance 

 and usefulness of the road. The majority of my farm fences 

 are of the ordinary kinds ; but I have found a thousand or 

 more feet of ])oitable wooden fence very useful. 



The only sound building that I found uj)on the farm was the 

 house, the other buildings being very dilapidated. Some of 

 these have been repaired, others have been torji down, and 

 some new l)uildings have been erected. A dilapidated barn, 

 fifty-five feet long by thirty-seven feet wide, 1 have entirely 

 renovated, clapboai'ded and shingled, and have lengthened by 

 an addition to its front, thirty feet long and forty-three feet 

 wide, so that it covers two commodious horse-stalls, one large 

 box-stall, twelve tie-ups for cows, one bull-pen, ample carriage 

 room, a boiler and grain i*oom, hayscales immediately inside of 

 large barn-door, and storage room for about forty tons of hay. 

 This year, by filling up much of the driveway from the floor to 

 near the gable, I have made more storage room. I shall 

 probably lengthen my barn forty-five feet during the coming 

 half-year. My buildings are painted, except the hospital and 

 henery, which are washed with a color to correspond. All the 

 buildings have been built simply, but strongly, with reference 

 to use and with no other ornamentation than to give their 

 exterior a neat and tasteful appearance, without incurring 

 unnecessary expense ; and many of them have been built by 

 myself. 



The approaches to my buildings and to my barnyard have 

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