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from the two outer drains as this lot. In cutting over 200 

 rods of underdrainage, as well as digging for bank walls, I 

 have found no stones of any amount in any of my soils three 

 feet underground, and this may account for my being able to 

 sink large stones cheaper than disposing of them otherwise. 

 It will be remembered that in throwing down these walls I 

 save twelve feet in width and 544 feet in length of land; 

 whereas, if I had cleared this lot of its rocks in the usual way, 

 by digging, drawing, and piling up against the old wall, the 

 stones would have required in all about one-half acre of land 

 to stand on. My plan has been to sink all the stones in sight, 

 as well as all the needless old walls, and to turn several lots 

 into one, instead of dividing one lot into many. Your com- 

 mittee will recollect of my pointing out to them the different 

 parcels and lots of land which were formerly divided into eight 

 lots of all sizes and shapes, and where partition walls to the 

 amount of 107 rods of old walls in a ruinous condition had 

 been used to fill six hundred rods of underdrainage. All of 

 these eight small lots formerly composed of here a pasture and 

 there a mowing, have been turned into one lot containing 

 twenty-two acres one and a half rods, and as many as eight 

 acres were as rough as the one described. 



Lot No. 2, contains four acres, two quarters, thirty-five rods. 

 It is situated on the north side of the road, and from fifteen to 

 twenty rods north-east of the above described lot, having al- 

 ways been used as a pasture until August, 1849. The soil 

 was naturally good ; four inches of the surface soil being a 

 dark mellow loam, with a friable chalky subsoil, naturally 

 much more dry than any of my opposite lots on the south side 

 of the road. This land had been noted for being rocky, so 

 much so that it seemed impossible to drive a plough through 

 it. Clumps or bunches of brakes and white-bush had rather 

 increased, instead of diminishing, for the last twenty years, 

 notwithstanding I had paid out from three to five dollars yearly 

 for mowing brush for several years. 



Late in May, 1848, 1 turned some twenty hogs into this pas- 

 ture, keeping them in part from the piggery till the first of 

 October, and so again in 1849. My expectation was that they 

 would root up the ground, and consequently kill out the brush; 

 but in this I was mistaken. They seemed determined to go 

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