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sary. A portion of these accounts are condensed and make a 

 part of this statement. 



When I came in possession of the farm, it wns much run 

 down ; the buildings required large outlays ; the interior walls 

 were low and crooked ; the grass on the mowing lands was thin 

 and light ; all the upland abounded in fast rocks ; the pasture 

 had grown up to bushes and birches, with a few sapling oaks 

 and maples ; the fruit trees, of which there -was about four 

 hundred apple, ten or twelve pear, and five or six peach, were, 

 most of them, in good condition. 



As nearly all the division walls required rebuilding, I deter- 

 mined to place them in such manner as would be more conven- 

 ient for working the land by improved implements and otherwise,, 

 and at the same time improve its appearance. To accomplish 

 this I laid out a farm road from my barn, (which stands in the 

 centre of the front of my upland on the easterly side,) twenty 

 feet wide and fifty rods long, in a straight line, and parallel; 

 with my northern boundary wall, to a point twenty-one rods- 

 distant from my rear or westerly wall, then turning at a right 

 angle and running south in a straight line twenty-eight rods to 

 the meadow, then dividing the upland into two about equal. 

 parts, and leaving on one side of the road, eight acres of the- 

 mowing, a field of one acre, seven and one-half acres of the- 

 pasture, and an orchard of one and three-fourths acres. Trenches 

 were then dug on each side of the road, and filled with smalL 

 stone ; the old cross walls, excepting that between the orchard 

 and pasture, were then hauled and set up anew, leaving gate- 

 ways at suitable distances. Such parts of the old walls as were 

 not wanted for this purpose, and a pile of stubble stones twenty- 

 two feet long, over twelve wide, and nearly four feet dccj), have' 

 been cai'ted off. One of the walls removed from this field had 

 been built double, with small stones, which had fallen and cov- 

 ered the ground, in some places to the depth of eight feet. Its 

 length was three hundred and seventy-nine feet. The fast rocks 

 have been dug out, blasted and laid in a cellar wall, under the 

 barn, eighty-three by twenty-eight feet. The wood and bushes 

 have been cut on the part formerly in pasture, the land ploughed,. 

 six and one-half acres of the same have been cultivated and 

 thoroughly cleared of stones, and five and one-half acres seeded 

 down to grass, on which I set in the fall of 1856, two hundred 



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