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ON FARMS. 



and all farming implements have not been improved, and are 

 not snsceptible of still greater improvement. To my mind, 

 farming, in detail, is co-equal with the improvements of all the 

 implements of husbandry. But I will begin an account of my 

 operations since the year 1844, on the farm which I now own 

 and occupy. 



I have built a barn and shed, repaired an old barn, added an 

 L to my house, with cellar under new barn thirty-eight by six- 

 ty feef, and solid mortar wall, at a cost of over three thousand 

 dollars. My house cellar I have bricked over^ and made it 

 proof against rats ; have built a brick cemented cistern, with 

 pipe and pump to draw the water into my sink, with well wat- 

 er into the kitchen. Of covered stone drains I have made fif- 

 ty-five rods ; of faced double wall, on either side of the road, 

 fifty-four rods ; of double substantial field wall, forty-eight rods; 

 of single wall, sixty-three rods. I have made seven to eight 

 acres of old heavy pasturing into good mowing fields, and wall- 

 ed the same. Have planted fifty-six choice varieties of pears ; 

 two hundred and four of apples ; seventy-one of plums ; fifteen 

 of cherries ; two hundred and eighty-one of peaches ; sixty of 

 quinces ; and twenty ornamental trees. — Total, seven hundred 

 and seven. Have filled all old trees that were thrifty with 

 scions of pears and apples. In addition, I have put in the 

 smaller fruits, such as raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, 

 and currants. 



My hay crop, this year, was good, — by careful judgement, I 

 cut over forty tons on less than twenty acres of ground. Of 

 wheat, which is my hobby, I could ask nothing better. Of 

 oats and barley, my crop was satisfactory. Indian corn heavy 

 for the season, — land moist. Carrots, small. Sugar beets, 

 satisfactory. Parsnips, small. Potatoes, twenty-five per cent 

 saved. Fruits in abundance, excepting apples, this not being 

 the bearing year with my varieties. 



My whole farm consits of seventy-five acres, — say, ten of 

 wood land, thirty of pasturage, and thirty-five of tillage. I am 

 not aware that there is a rod of unproductive land in the farm. 

 My stock consists of fourteen neat cattle, two horses, and 

 twelve hogs, with a full stock of the feathered tribes. 



North Andover, Nov. 1850. 



