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were interrnpted this year, we have no doubt that a large and 

 amply remunerating crop may be taken from it for many years 

 to come. Upon that portion of the land which had been tilled 

 last year, the crops of hay and spring grains were light. We 

 apprehend, however, that a like result has been the common 

 experience this year, in this part of the county. Potatoes, 

 grown here, proved to be of excellent quality. 



Mr. Tubbs is deserving, we think, of no small credit, for 

 his energetic and persevering endeavors to reclaim and beautify 

 this unsightly and unpromising bog. We accord to him the 

 encouragement he merits, and would urge others to follow his 

 example, wherever the means at hand will justify the cost of 

 the experiment. An equally praiseworthy and successful 

 experiment, upon lands immediately adjoining those of Mr. 

 Tubbs, has attracted our notice, and presents a most encour- 

 aging example to any who are willing, by hard and persevering 

 labor, to make for themselves a prodactive farm, out of an 

 almost worthless bog. And we are confident that large tracts 

 of similar bog and swamp land in our county, may be made, 

 by similar means, to produce large crops of hay, grain, and 

 vegetables, instead of remaining to disfigure its sarface, to 

 spread noxious miasma through the homes of its citizens, and 

 to rebuke the farmers who own them. 



The land of Mr. Salisbury embraces a portion of bog nearly, 

 if not quite, as unsightly and unpromising, as are those lands 

 to which we have already alluded. It had been, however, cul- 

 tivated for a longer time, and had steadily improved under the 

 care and judicious management of its owner. The crop of 

 hay on this land was larger this year than the last, but dimin- 

 ished by a cause to which Mr. S. refers in his statement. We 

 have no doubt that, when this obstacle is removed, the whole 

 cost and labor of the experiment will be amply repaid. It will 

 be observed, that Mr. Salisbury continues to enrich this land 

 by the annual compost of his barn yard, consisting of coarse 

 sand, or gravel, and the droppings of several cows. By this 

 course, he is rendering the soil firmer and more compact, and 

 the grass sweeter and more nutritious, as well as more abund- 

 ant. 



