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growth, are now apparently as thrifty as those which have not 

 been thus injured. 



I have a liouse and yards for fowls on one side of the orchard 

 within the inclosure ; and it is my present intention to raise a 

 crop of tobacco on the ground next season, and allow the 

 fowls free range over the field to feed upon and destroy the 

 worms, &c., the crop of tobacco being almost the only one 

 which fowls do not injure. 



Pear Trees. 

 D. C. Bretver^^s (Statement. 



The orchard of young pear trees which I offer for premium, 

 consists of forty trees which were set in the spring of 1850. 

 The land on which they stand is a sandy loam ; it had been 

 cultivated for two years and v/as in a good state for trans- 

 planting. 



The varieties are as folknvs : — Bartlett, Seckel. Beurre Bosc, 

 Beurre Diel, Beurre de Amalis, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Flem- 

 ish Beauty, Henry IV", Frederick of Wurtemburg, Madeline, 

 Vicar of Winkfield, Beauty of Automne, Marie Louise, Ur- 

 baniste, Yan Mons Leon le Clerc. In the spring of 1850 I 

 dug the holes for the trees, fifteen by twenty feet apart. I 

 made them fifteen inches in depth and four feet broad, and 

 mixed with the soil, some compost to each hole; I then set out 

 the trees ; they all lived and made wood, from one to two feet 

 the first jrear. They are now looking healthy and vigorous, 

 have made from two to three feet growth the past season ; 

 quite a number of the trees bore this year; the fruit Avas large 

 and fine. 



Peach Orchard. 

 ' D. C. Brewer^s Statemerit. 



In the fall of 1848, I made preparations for setting my 

 peach orchard, and in the spring of 1849, after preparing my 

 ground, (which was in a barren and uncultivated state,) by a 

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