ESSEX SOCIETY. 



Article. 



6. Tillage crop, Roots, 



7. Small Grain crops, 



8. Grass, on uplands, 



9. Grass, on reclaimed meadows, 



10. Ditches and Underdrains, . 



11. Orchards and Kitchen Gardens, 



12. Stone Walls and other fences, 



13. Dairy products, 



14. Farm accounts. 



For the committee. 



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Allen W. Dodge, Chairman. 



Joseph Holt, JrJs, Statement. 



The farm offered for the society's premium, is composed of 

 the following parcels : home place, twenty-seven acres ; wood- 

 land about thirty acres; pasture, (one mile and a half from 

 home,) sixteen acres ; meadow and woodland, (distant three 

 and a half miles,) seven acres. 



Twenty-three acres of the homestead, I inherited from my 

 ancestors, together with the meadow and woodland. More 

 than one-half of the original of the home land, I have subdued 

 from a very rough, unproductive state ; a number of acres of it 

 have cost a hundred dollars or more per acre, before I put a 

 seed into it. There was not a rod of good stone wall on the 

 place, 1 have rebuilt the whole of it, I think the whole length 

 of wall that I have built, is three hundred and seventy rods; a 

 great part of it is trenched from twelve to sixteen inches deep. 

 My land is so much affected by frost, that a wall, however 

 heavy and well laid, will not keep in place but a few years, 

 unless the foundation is placed below the reach of frost. I 

 have laid an underdrain through one piece" of land about fifty 

 rods, with a ditch four feet wide and three feet deep, filled 

 with stone, within eight inches of the surface. 



The committee may think that I have made too large an 

 outlay for a man with a small income, and no surplus capital; 

 and I have frequently felt myself, that I might not, in my day, 

 realize, in dollars and cents, all that I have expended in this 

 way; still, I think it will pay in the end. I have built nothing 



