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paid to visit this little farm. Though the time has come for 

 the proprietor to take in sail, he may well exclaim with the 

 mariner "The result is well worth the voyage." His remark to 

 us we well remember, "I take solid comfort in seeing this go 

 on." The farm will hardly take care of itself, but the products 

 of the poultry yard, where a thousand chickens are raised, 

 keep up the fertility of the grass land. All the while this work 

 was being done, the bystanders looked on with doubt. It is 

 "luck" they say. It is not the fortunate circumstances we say ; 

 it is the result of foresight and calculation and work. Further- 

 more, if those who doubted the capacity of the soil could have 

 cultivated the enthusiasm and hope of the proprietor, would 

 not they have been able to go through the revolutions which 

 convulse society better than they do ? 



We think our report would not be complete if we omitted to 

 speak, in this connection, of Green Harbor Marsh which has 

 sent to our fair its valuable collection. 



The experiments mentioned in the foregoing remarks involve 

 considerable expense for fertilizers. What may we expect from 

 fourteen hundred acres containing all the elements of plant 

 food? The liberal, unprejudiced mind, cannot doubt that a town 

 of considerable dimensions could be sustained there by work- , 

 ing that rich deposit when disintegration and drainage has 

 become complete. We submit that this enterprise has passed 

 beyond the reach of ridicule and caricature. Seeing is 

 believing. Large crops of onions have been taken from this 

 soil the past season. Your committee understand that onions 

 are not usually grown without plenty of fertilizers. A field 

 of corn, planted the eleventh of June, produced a good crop, 

 the warm October days favoring the ripening. It was har- 

 vested the ninth of October, a little less than four months from 

 time of planting. It was a late variety of seed, and we think 



