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The same year I built a house at a cost of $550, and a gran- 

 ary which cost $150. In 1861, I sold from the farm the 

 amount of $652 33, and my expenses were $688 33. In 1862, 

 I sold from the farm the amount of $693 67, and my expenses 

 were $834 16. During this year I built over most of my line 

 walls, put in under-drains, cut bushes, etc. In 1863, I sold 

 $1115 80, and my expenses were $1083 80. In 1864, I sold 

 $1945 50, and my expenses were $1371 00. In 1865, I sold 

 $2274 16, and my expenses were $1763 00. This year I built 

 my barn, and we had considerable extra work in digging cellar, 

 hauling stone, lumber, etc., besides working on the farm. In 

 1866, I sold from the farm $2595 83, and expenses were 

 $1647 70. This year, 1867, my crops are not as good as in 

 years previous, but prices have been better, so that my sales 

 will not be far from what they were last year. What the farm 

 is worth now, I could not exactly tell, and as it is not for sale, 

 I do not wish to set a price upon it, but others call it worth all 

 the way from $5000 to $8000. 



IMt^EOVING PASTUEE AND WASTE LANDS. 



The Committee on improving pasture and waste land, have 

 had no entry for the former and but one for waste land — that 

 of Kichard Webster, of Haverhill. 



Three of the Committee visited this piece of land in Sep- 

 tember, and were pleased with the improvement made upon 

 it. It will be seen by the statement of Mr. Webster, that he 

 was liberal in his expenses, having spent over twelve hundred 

 dollars for labor, seed and manure, on less than three acres, in 

 three years, but large as the expenditure was, the income was 

 still larger. We have looked at the amount of sales from this 



