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surface of the field, all go to account for the fact, that each tree 

 produced three dollars' worth of peaches in three years from the 

 bud. Even in this peachless year almost, the trees were quite well 

 fruited, many of them very well. The early York peach tree, 

 says Mr. B., winter-kills more than any other. Mr. B. has eighty 

 apple trees, all planted out 28 feet apart, with a peach tree between 

 every two. The peach trees yielded $250 worth of fruit for the 

 market two years ago. Seventy-five pear trees are growing and 

 thriving upon the same four acres. 



With a horse, one cow and two pigs, well supplied with meadow 

 mud, Mr. Bradstreet makes ten cords of manure annually. The 

 chairman regrets that on account of the short time devoted to this 

 farm, so few facts were collected for the benefit of the public. And 

 the same remark may be made with regard to the farm of 

 Francis Dodge, situated near the two above described. It is a 

 farm of 115 acres, and situated upon the summit and sides of a 

 beautiful swell, overlooking Salem harbor and the bay, with a large 

 part of Essex county, and in sight of Wachusett if not Monadnoc 

 mountains. The orcharding is splendid — from 500 to 600 trees, 

 and chiefly fruited well. This is a milk farm to a great extent, 

 having twenty-three cows. The other stock consists of six oxen, 

 three horses and one bull. Mr. Dodge has owned and occupied 

 this farm since 1840, although singularly enough it has changed 

 owners five times within twenty years. It stands the present owner 

 at $7,500, and apparently needs but few repairs. The stone walls 

 are a sight worth many miles of travel to see. They stand six 

 feet high in the clear. They are founded too upon rocks, being 

 ditch-wall, and are built of stone so massive and with such finish, 

 that a man may go with a loaded wheelbarrow upon the top, round 

 entire fields. So we are told by one of the previous owners, and 

 we can very well believe it. 



Mr. Dodge has half an acre in squashes, which attracted much 

 attention on account of tlie crop which was, like many others this 

 year, more than large. We speak of it, to say that it was manured 

 with one part night soil to three of meadow mud. On inquiring for 

 Mr. D.'s method of treating the yellow squash bug, he informed us 

 he does not kill or suffer the hug to he killed; not, however, out of 

 any special regard to the insect, but because in killing, you almost 



