no MIDDLESEX SOCIETY. 



8 calves, ------ 



3 tons oat straw, - - - - - 

 Cranberries, ------ 



Manure bought and wood used, 



Help hired, ------ 



Taxes, ------- 



$701 00 



Time of nnyself and son, 18 years old, and small son, 12 years old. 

 Sudbury, August, 1851. 



John P. Reed's Statement. 



The farm I offer for premium, was bought by me in the 

 spring of 1833, for twenty-three hundred and fifty dollars. It 

 contains about one hundred acres. I paid $950 in cash, 

 leaving me $1400 in debt. The buildings then on the farm 

 were very poor, and the farm was very much run out, having 

 had nothing done on it for many years, but merely to take off 

 what grew upon it. The fences were down, stones had been 

 tilted up by their side, and brush was growing by the side of 

 them, nearly all over the farm. The fruit trees were all old, 

 and had suffered very much for want of trimming ; there was 

 but one grafted apple tree on the place, and not a pear, peach, 

 plum or cherry tree. Thus, you will see, I was placed in 

 rather unfavorable circumstances. Poor buildings, poor fences, 

 farm run out, and I in debt for more than half its purchase 

 money. 



I have since built all new buildings, at a cost of about $2000. 

 I have built about five hundred and ten rods of heavy stone 

 wall, and hauled the stone for about fifty rods more. The 

 wall I have built with my own hands, having a man or boy to 

 help place the large stones. I have made about one hundred 

 and twenty-five rods of under-drains or blind ditches, and dug 

 about three hundred and fifty rods of open ditches. My barn 

 is supplied with running water, conducted by a lead pipe from 

 a well which I dug. 



