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bushes and ploughing has been about ten dollars per acre. One 

 other acre of meadow land was covered with alder and rose 

 bushes. This I subdued by cutting in August ; there were 

 but few of them that started ; those that did, I cut the next year 

 and it entirely subdued them. 

 Halifax, Sept. 6, 1851. 



Orsamus Liitlejohn' s Statement. 



The offer of a premium made by this society, for the most 

 judiciously cultivated farm of not less than twenty acres, pay- 

 able in 1851, was accepted by me in 1848, and the following 

 is an account of my operations and the results. 



I am a blacksmith by trade, and my time is almost wholly 

 occupied in the shop ; when on the farm, I charge ten cents 

 the hour. My farm, which by the help of books, I have earned 

 and made, contains 56 acres and cost $1,483. 22 acres are 

 wood land — 12 acres are too poor to have a name, and have 

 been planted with forest trees — 22 acres are the farm. My 

 stock is equal to three cows, one horse, three hogs and one beef 

 creature. My family consists of seven persons. A daily 

 account has been kept with the farm, and also of all the arti- 

 cles bought for the family. Each crop is charged for all it 

 receives, and credited for all it returns. The labor and materi- 

 als not produced for the compost heap, are charged. 



Permanent improvements, such as blasting rocks, building 

 walls, shifting soils and laying under-drains are charged to im- 

 provements. 



The hired labor in 1848, amounted to - - $135 50 



Interest on farm and taxes, _ _ _ 104 00 



My work and boys on farm, - - - 50 00 

 Articles purchased for farm and family, such as 

 stock, hay, grains, groceries, grass seed, repairs on 



buildings, pasture, stock, materials for compost, 142 98 



$432 49 

 Produce of the farm in 1848 as follows: 

 135 bushels corn, 75 cts., - - - - 101 25 



