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Article. Points. 



9 Grass on reclaimed meadows - - 1 



10 Ditches and iinderdrains - - - 1 



11 Orchards and Kitchen gardens - - 1 



12 Stone walls and other fences - - 1 



13 Dairy products - - - - 1 



14 Farm accounts _ . _ _ i 



For the Committee, 



ALLEN W. DODGE, Chairman. 



JOSEPH HOLT, Jr.'s, STATEMENT. 

 The farm offered for the Society's premium, is composed of 

 the following parcels : — home place, twenty-seven acres ; wood- 

 land, about thirty acres ; pasture, (one mile and a half from 

 home,) sixteen acres ; meadow and woodland, (distant three 

 and a half miles,) seven acres. 



Twenty-three acres of the homestead, I inherited from my 

 ancestors, together with the meadow and woodland. More 

 than one half of the original of the home-land, I have subdued 

 from a very rough, unproductive state ; a number of acres of it 

 have cost a hundred dollars or more per acre, before I put a seed 

 into it. There was not a rod of good stone wall, on the place; 

 I have rebuilt the whole of it. I think the whole length of 

 wall that I have built, is three hundred and seventy rods; a 

 great part of it is trenched from twelve to sixteen inches deep. 

 My land is so much affected by frost, that a wall, however 

 heavy and well laid, will not keep in place but a few years, 

 unless the foundation is placed below the reach of frost. I 

 have laid an under-drain through one piece of land about fifty 

 rods, with a ditch four feet wide and three feet deep, filled with 

 stone within eight inches of the surface. 



The committee may think that I have made too large an 

 outlay for a man with a small income, and no surplus capital ; 

 and I have frequently felt myself, that I might not, in my day, 

 realize in dollars and cents, all that I have expended in this 

 way ; still, I think it will pay in the end. I have built noth- 

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