6 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



that, in hopes to have it extend itself; yet he takes up from 

 fifty to one hundred loads a year of that fat manure. Only 

 seven acres of this noble farm of two hundred acres arc in salt 

 marsh, and seventy in pasture ; all the rest are tillage and mow- 

 ing, with some woodland. Formerly one man (himself) car- 

 ried on the whole; but recently he has divided it into three 

 parts, thus making three pretty distinct farms. Nearly one- 

 third of all the tillage land is in gardens. Two acres are in 

 onions — probably four hundred barrels on these two. The 

 grass laud shows the strength of sea stuff. Mr. Smith informed 

 me that he had cut three tons of well-made hay upon a measured 

 acre at one crop, and it would average two. Six tons of carrots 

 are an average crop, and so are sixty bushels of Indian corn. 

 Upon the whole farm, viz., the three divisions of it, there are 

 kept bat eight oxen, three horses, and eight to ten cows — 

 thus showing that, when farmers will avail themselves of sur- 

 rounding facilities for making manures, the crops need not be 

 consumed on the farm (or that purpose, but may be sold at mar- 

 ket and turned to ready money, i have said that this farm is 

 one for pro (it, and not for the looks alone. I ought to say that, 

 notwithstanding the venerable owner iias expended sonic sev- 

 enty live hundred dollars upon his buildings since he bought 

 the place, he is just about putting up other and new ones, and 

 pleasantly suggested that the full committee had better sus- 

 pend their visit until he should have put his farm into a shape 

 more agreeable to him self- 

 Mr. Smith invited me to visit his reclaimed meadow of seven 

 acres; and, as might be expected, it was his most productive 

 land, although reclaimed thirty years ago. This reminds me 

 of a noble example of the same kind which I inadvertently 

 omitted in speaking of the farm at West Beach. That was 

 one of fourteen acres, and though full of stumps of trees of 

 gigantic growth, alders, and standing or stagnant water, yet it 

 pays — as would almost any meadow any where. 



Mr. Smith received my visit most cordially, though entirely 

 unsought and unexpected by him; and ray reflection on leaving 

 his noble farm and his excellent company was, that, with all 

 the dignity and eloquence of our regular-built cattle-show ad- 

 dresses, there is something rich and fascinating, as well as 



