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" My idea of a happy, good and great man," says one whoso 

 words we quote as a fitting conckision of this report, " is a thor- 

 oughly educated and accomphshed farmer, lie lives true to 

 nature ; he is constantly in her midst. With ceaseless vigilance, 

 he observes her beautiful developments and ever changing forms, — 

 her infinite variety and never-failing uniformity. He watches 

 the clouds and the seasons, he surveys the earth, and contem- 

 plates the glory of the heavens. He breathes the air fresh from 

 heaven, eats the uncorrupted food of healthful industry, and 

 drinks the water pure from its fountain. Thus living witlb nature 

 and in nature, he is led to contemplate the great Source of all her 

 manifestations. Like Moses, he sees, and hke Enoch, he may be 

 said literally ' to walk with God.' " 



For the Committee, 



CHARLES C. SEWALL. 



STATEMENT OF OTIS G. CIIEEVER, IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES OF 

 THE SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE. 



The farm which I enter for the Society's premium, came into 

 the possession of my father in 1795, and consequently has been 

 held by the family sixty-four years. 



The original purchase consisted of 31 acres, and an old house 

 twenty-two by twenty-five feet, without a barn, or a rod of lawful 

 fence on the premises. My father being a carpenter, and doing 

 most of the work in that line for the whole neighborhood, was 

 obliged to make farming a secondary business. And being with- 

 out a team or farming tools, he was glad to receive a large part 

 of the pay for his own work, in labor on his farm. 



From time to time, as he succeeded in saving the means, he 

 added to his lands, so that, at tlie present time, the farm contains 

 by estimate, ninety acres, including sixteen of woodland, bought 

 since it came into my possession. 



It is divided as follows : Mowing and tillage, twenty-five acres ; 

 tillable pasture, seven acres ; not tillable pasture, nineteen acres ; 

 (not tillable now, because I consider it worth more devoted to the 

 growth of wood, than to cultivation ;) woodland, thirty-four acres ; 

 Avaste land and swales, five acres. These nineteen acres of what 

 I now consider not tillable pasture, have been, however, ploughed 

 and sowed with winter rye once or twice, and stones enough dug 

 from them to divide the whole into lots, varying from two to three 

 acres each, well fenced Avith heavy walls, and yet so many stones 

 remain I do not consiilcr the land worth reclaiming, especially 

 since, if let alone, wood grows readily upon it. I think if owners 

 of largo farms in this part of the County Avould encourage the 



