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acres of winter rye, and two thirds of an acre of winter wheat ; 

 five acres of the rye, and the wheat on a clover lay, and the 

 remainder on sward land, and on land where my corn fodder 

 was raised this season ; the last five acres were manured, 

 at the rate of fifteen loads of compost per acre. 



When I came upon the farm, there were sixty old apple 

 trees, one half of which had been grafted five years ; forty- 

 five old peach trees, eighteen pear, twelve plum, and eight 

 cherry trees, also two hundred and fifty apple trees, and eight 

 hundred peach trees were set in 1846. Last spring I set one 

 hundred apple, sixty pear, and fifty cherry trees. My young 

 trees embrace many of the best and most celebrated varieties, 

 such as the Baldwin, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Roxbury Russet, 

 Danvers Winter Sweet, and William's Favorite. Among the 

 pears, the Bartlett, Andrews, Louise Bon de Jersey, Fulton and 

 Flemish Beauty, thirty of which are on Q,uince stocks. 

 Among the cherry, the Black Tartarian, Early Duke and May 

 Duke, and among the peaches there are the Crawford, early 

 and late, Coolidge Favorite, George the Fourth, and Noblesse. 

 All my peach trees, and one hundred and seventy of my small 

 apple trees, are in land seeded to grass the year before my 

 purchase. These trees I dig around monthly, from April to 

 October, two to three feet distant from the trunk, and apply 

 two shovels full of leached ashes to each tree in June, and 

 wash the apple trees with strong soap suds. All my trees are 

 upon land of a similar character, a deep, moist and warm soil, 

 and those in the grass land which is highly manured have made 

 as much growth as those in the tillage and I think will com- 

 pare favorably with any in the county. I think that my peach 

 trees have done better in grass land than they would in tillage, 

 for they make as much growth of wood as will ripen well and 

 I have not seen a twig winter-killed since I have been on the 

 place. 



I kept last winter, from the produce of the farm, and fifty- 

 two hundred pounds of rowen bought in the spring, twenty- 

 eight cows, one bull, six oxen and two horses. I have kept in 

 my home pasture of sixty acres, on an average for live months 

 ending Oct. 20th, (since which I have fed my mowing land) 

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