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he terms it, ^^ hungry ^''^ and exhibits evidences that the former 

 owners were not very liberal in supplying all the food neces- 

 sary for the full development of growing plants. 



Since it come into his possession, Mr. Littlejohn has con- 

 verted several acres of worthless swamp into fertile English 

 meadow. 



His unimproved land, he has mostly covered (by planting) 

 Avith young thrifty forest trees. 



His orchard contains one hundred and thirty-eight trees of 

 various kinds, in a flourishing condition, the most of them set 

 or grafted with his own hands. 



For his sandy and gravelly soils he prepares annually a com- 

 post of muck (composed chiefly of vegetable matter) to which 

 he adds, barn-manure, burnt oyster shells, spent ley, ashei, &c., 

 by which he obtains a most fertilizing manure, suited to his 

 soil, at the trifling cost of twenty cents per load. 



Mr. Littlejohn has erected the present season a new and con- 

 venient dwelling-house, one room in which he informed us 

 would be fitted up for an agricultural library, from which may 

 emerge, at no distant day, another "learned blacksmith." 



In the management of his farm we have discovered no 

 hasty or impulsive attempt at renovation not justified by the 

 strictest economy, but a system of progressive improvement, 

 exhibiting a degree of prudence and economy seldom equalled 

 and never surpassed. 



Respectfully submitted, 



HORACE COLLAMORE. 



Chipman Portefs Statement. 

 The bush pasture that I have entered for premium, I purchased 

 in April, 1848. I commenced cutting bushes the August fol- 

 lowing, and ploughed two acres ; in 1849, two acres more, and- 

 in 18.50, two more, making six acres that I ploughed. The 

 most of it had not been ploughed for forty years. It was cov- 

 ered with black and swamp whortleberry, black laurel and 

 bayberry bushes. I seeded it down to grass in April, and it 

 took well. The bushes are nearly all subdued but the laurel ; 

 they start between the furrows. The expense of cutting the 



