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the value of deep ploughing, regular rotation of crops, and 

 makes large quantities of manure, personally superintends his 

 business, and is not afraid or ashamed daily to off coat, and at 

 it. He may be considered somewhat of a model farmer. 



Mr. Moses Stebbins cultivates a small farm with much suc- 

 cess; his estimates show a great degree of j)roductiveness. 

 He obtains valuable manure from the deposits of Connecticut 

 River. Your committee, in ascertaining the amount of the 

 products of a farm deem actual weight and admeasurement 

 of much more value than mere estimates. 



INIr. Huntington has a small farm, of great productiveness, a 

 portion of which is a light soil. He has greatly improved his 

 acres by a judicious system of underdraining, and possesses a 

 valuable source of improvement to his farm, of which he abun- 

 dantly avails himself, in the shape of a lot of muck. We 

 rejoice to find that Mr. Huntington is the principal laborer on 

 his own farm. 



Mr. Allis showed ns his farm and buildings, which, under his 

 energetic management, bids fair to become one of the most 

 productive farms in that vicinity, and his buildings and their 

 appurtenances will soon be in a condition to answer all his 

 expectations. He has a mine of wealth which he duly appre- 

 ciates, and the fine condition of some parts of his farm, and 

 the heavy crops of this season, show the value of the black 

 mould of his bog meadow. He raised, this season, six acres 

 of tobacco, which in September last was a most luxuriant 

 crop, and in the opinion of the committee, will be of much 

 greater profit to the producer than to the consumer. 



Mr. Dickinson has a farm, on which he has made extensive 

 and valuable improvements. A part of his lands are cold 

 and low, and were, a few years since, quite unproductive ; but 

 under his skilful management, with drains and manure, an 

 old, unsightly and bushy pasture, has become pleasant to the 

 eye, and productive to the owner. He showed the committee 

 a fine piece of corn raised on land of a lighter grade. .We 

 congratulate Mr. Dickinson on his judgment and forecast, as 

 exhibited in his preference of the quiet life of the farmer, to 

 the noise and confinement of the city, and the temptations 

 and uncertainties of mercantile life. 



There are probably within the boundaries of this society, 



