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Baldwin apple trees. On this field liave been laid sixty rods of 

 stone iinderdrain. 



On the other side of the road referred to, were two fields of 

 mowing and tillage ; the one contained about two and one-half, 

 the other eight acres, and about five and one-half acres of the 

 pasture ; the wall dividing the two latter lay along on the top 

 of a sharp ridge for about forty-eight rods. For many reasons 

 whicli it is unnecessary for me to detail,! moved this wall about 

 sixty feet, to the foot of the ridge, and there relaid it. The 

 intermediate land has Ijeen cleared of all loose stone and another 

 large pile of the same ; I have ploughed and seeded it down to 

 grass. The partly built wall dividing' the lots of two and one- 

 half and eight acres, has been removed and laid around my 

 barnyard, in a wall five feet high and four feet wide at the base. 

 These improvements left the field with about eleven and one- 

 half acres, on whicli I set in 1851 and 1852, two hundred and 

 eighty-four apple, two hundred and twenty-five pear, two hun- 

 dred and eighty-five peach, thirty-four cherry and five plum, in 

 all eight hundred and thirty-three trees, all budded or grafted 

 with the best varieties. None of these trees have ever stood in 

 grass ; the land under them to the width of nine or ten feet 

 being constantly under cultivation. They have made rapid 

 growth since they were set. Some of these apple trees measure 

 at this time sixteen and eighteen inches in circumference ; over 

 two hundred of the latter have borne the past season from one- 

 half bushel downwards, the peaches about twenty bushels, the 

 pears a few, and the cherries about one-half bushel. No cattle 

 have grazed this land since the trees were set. Of the four and 

 one-half acre pasture adjoining the above, I have this year 

 ploughed and planted two and one-half acres. As the cultiva- 

 tion proceeds, the stones, &c., are collected into every fifth 

 furrow, to be carted off after the crop is harvested. 



Besides the improvements stated above, I have laid a bank 

 wall in front of my house thirty rods in length, with a buck- 

 thorn hedge along the line of this for eighty yards. These walls 

 with several small pieces in various parts of the farm, make a 

 total of two hundred and twenty rods built, and one hundred 

 and ninety rods removed ; many repairs have been made on the 

 buildings ; nearly all the old apple trees have been grafted ; all 

 the upland has been ploughed, planted and cleared of stones, 



