92 ON FARMS. 



Near the farm of Mr. Merrill, is the farm, or rather the nursery, 

 of Simeon L. Wilson. It may be a question whether he should not 

 have entered it with the committee on nurseries. His 'little cottage, 

 however, surrounded as it is with trees, cannot fail to attract the 

 notice of all lovers of rural taste and beauty, who chance to pass that 

 way. There was much to be admired in the neatness and order of 

 all his arrangements. His travelhng establishment was not gorgeous 

 or expensive. He was wheeled on a common wheelbarrow through 

 the walks of his grounds, to show and explain to the committee the 

 manner of reclaiming his land and cultivating his trees. Some of his 

 standard trees had fruit upon them. Instead of a bush, which the 

 quince usually exhibits, his quinces were trained to a handsome tree, 

 having on them some fine specimens of fruit. His method of de" 

 fending his plums from the ravages of the Curculio, was to the com- 

 mittee new, and seems to have been successful. But whether it 

 could be practiced on a more extended scale, the committee say not. 

 They are of opinion that, although for want of means in the com- 

 mencement, the reclaiming of his land has been attended with much 

 expense, yet, from present appearances, he will receive a rich pecu- 

 niary reward, when his trees shall be fit for market. 



Mr. Wilson's statement is a history of himself, as well as his culti- 

 vation from his youth. The committee are of opinion that such per- 

 severing industry and successful management, in cultivating the soil 

 under the many disadvantageous circumstances which have attended 

 Mr. Wilson, being a cripple from his youth, should not pass without 

 a favorable notice ; and they award him the sum of $10 00 



The committee having visited and examined all the farms entered 

 for examination, and being near the farm of Joseph How, of Methu- 

 en, who had received a number of premiums from the Society, for 

 his good management and successful cultivation, embraced the op- 

 portunity afforded of passing over his farm. Having obtained the 

 first premium of the Society for the best managed farm in the county, 

 has not bounded his enterprize in farming. The chairman of this 

 committee had visited and examined Mr. How's farm seven years 

 since. Such alterations and improvements had been made in it since 

 that time, as to change the whole appearance to such an extent that 

 he was unable to find it without inquiry. A new and elegant house 

 had been erected, ornamented with trees and flowers in front, and 



