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T. P. Huntington's Statement. 



Gentlemen, — My farm having been duly entered for a premi- 

 um, and having passed the inspection of your most honorable 

 body, it remains for me, in complying with the conditions of 

 the premium, to otfer for your further consideration the follow- 

 ing statement : 



My farm consists of about 50 acres. Of these, 10 acres are 

 meadow land, including the grounds about the buildings ; 15 

 acres besides are considered good tillage land ; five acres of 

 wood on Mount Warner ; and the remaining 20 acres are 

 sandy ; 12 of which are occasionally cropped, and the remain- 

 der, being difficult of access, are left to nature. 



I usually hoe of the 25 ac-res, about six, put in winter and 

 spring grain about four, and in grass 15. My corn averages 

 about 5d bushels per acre, broom corn about 700 lbs., oats 35 

 bushels, and grass one and a half tons. 



I spend annually a considerable amount of labor and manure 

 in experimenting witli the sandy hill, which has robbed, to 

 some extent, other portions of the farm. I am now endeavor- 

 ing, with the help of muck, to get clover growing, and think I 

 shall succeed. 



My main objects in farming, have been, not so much to ob- 

 tain extra crops, and realize great profits, as to improve the 

 general appearance of the farm, to make productive waste 

 places, and to save and make manure. Whether I have been 

 successful in either of these particulars, your committee have 

 full opportunity to judge, and on that account it is not neces- 

 sary here to go into details. 



Ploughing. 



This is the farmers' jubilee, and we feel more like being 

 merry than sedate, especially as we now have the presence of 

 those who cheer all occasions ; and we may congratulate our- 

 selves that we have passed beyond those days of incivility and 

 bad taste, when we used to assemble on similar occasions as 

 though we had no mothers, sisters, wives, or daughters, in the 

 community. 



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