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Horace C. Ware, Esq., between tlie i-esidence of Mr. Ware 

 and the house known as the " Old Toll House." 



In the spring of 1882, Mr. Ware decided to build a 

 "Silo" and the mowing fields on the farm being mostly in 

 very good condition and bearing a good burden of grass, J 

 very much regretted disturjoing them, especially for what 

 seemed to me quite an experiment, having very little per- 

 sonal knowledge about Silos or Ensilage. I therefore con- 

 cluded to commence on the piece of land above located, to 

 renovate and reclaim it, at the same time raising tlie most 

 of my ensilage corn thereon. 



This piece of land, though quite elevated, is naturally, 

 the most of it, quite moist, of a yellowish loam, verij stony, 

 the ledge protruding from the surface in several places. It 

 furnished very little feed as a pasture, a part of it being al- 

 most covered with alders, wild rose and barberry bushes ; 

 the other part either mossed over, or growins; that beauti- 

 fnl and thrifty plant so little relished by cows and yet so 

 largely produced by most pastures in this vicinity — the 

 wood-wax. 



We commenced in the Spring above referred to, by dig- 

 ging what stones were to be seen that two men could pry 

 out with crow-bars, going over some three or four acres, 

 then drawing the stones off on drag and carts, depositing 

 them where I proposed, at most convenient times, to lay 

 them into a wall (which has since been done). I then 

 commenced breaking the land, using one of T. B. Hussey's 

 largest plows, drawn by four oxen, employing four men — 

 one to drive the team, two to attend to the plow, as it was 

 so stony it required the weight of one man to keep tlie 

 plow in the ground at all, also the plow being so heavy it 

 required two men to take it back when backing up, which 

 was about half the time : the fourth man followed after the 

 plow, turning any sod that might fall back, and throwing 

 the loose stones out of the furrow. 



