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houses, and we would build another barn, or even larger, if 

 necessary, to contain all carts, implements, etc., too often left 

 unhoused, or more or less exposed to the weather in sheds. 



We removed at once all division fences, and have only the 

 boundary line fenced. Some 300 feet of this has stone posts 

 set five feet in the gravel ground. Another, 400 feet, has large 

 stones on the surface of clayey soil, ten feet apart, with one 

 and a half inch iron posts sulphured in to drilled holes ; and 

 these, together v/ith the rails and slats, rise and fall with the 

 freezing and thawing clay. This novel and useful fence, and 

 that of the stone posts, give great satisfaction. A live fence 

 of the honey locust is also being tried. Other fences are of 

 the usual varieties. 



x\n old apple orchard has been rejuvenated by draining, 

 trimming and grafting. Several trees grafted with the Hub- 

 bardston Nonsuch bore so profusely as to destroy their vitality. 

 We have forty varieties, many of them on paradise stocks, 

 which gives a smaller tree, but larger fruit. Many pear trees 

 are also in this orchard. 



The exclusive pear orchard is well drained and trenched, 

 with horn piths thrown in from one to three feet below the 

 surface, as a permanent phosphate manure. We have 75 va- 

 rieties of the fruit comprising the kinds we think most worthy 

 of cultivation. Each year, however, we think more of stan- 

 dards and less of dwarfs. The former, particularly of the 

 Lawrence, do as well in grass ground as the apple tree. 



Crops have not as yet been raised to sell, vv'ith the excep- 

 tion of hay, which, on the prepared land, is fourfold compared 

 with former cuttings. Crops for domestic use are grown — 

 corn and carroLs for horses, turnips and beets for cows. All 

 are in abundance and indispensable. 



Stock generally consists of a pair of horses and two cows. 

 The latter have been " soiled " during the summers for three 

 years, and the practice is quite satisfactory. They are con- 

 tented, thrifty, give more and better milk. 



" Other appendages " with us must be trees, hedges, ponds 



