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dressing upon his grass lands, is disappointed in his expectations of 

 advantage from it. Extensive beds of clay marl have been dis- 

 covered ; and this has been applied with great advantage on peat 

 lands or bog meadows. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Fruit is an article cultivated in some parts of the county to much 

 profit. A farmer in the northern part of the county, two years since, 

 sold peaches from his orchards to the amount of $250, and the year 

 previous, to the same amount. The severity of the seasons has 

 been fatal to this fruit in most parts of New England ; but the culti- 

 vation is so easy, and the yield so early, and, when successful, so 

 valuable, that it deserves attention. The farmer's gains where the 

 farm is small, must be made up of small iten s. The apple trees of 

 this same careful and skilful farmer, were arranged on the borders of 

 all his fields ; and placed parallel with the walls at such a distance, 

 that he could plough between the wall and his trees. He, therefore, 

 kept a belt of about twelve feet, in which the trees stood, always 

 cultivated. This was to the benefit of the trees ; and, at the same 

 time, enabled him to keep the space between the trees and the wall 

 clean and entirely free from weeds and bushes. 



The cold winter of 1833-4, was fatal to the Baldwin apple trees, 

 throughout the county ; but there are other and a great variety of 

 apples cultivated to advantage. The canker worm, which for some 

 few years infested and destroyed many fine orchards, has disappeared. 

 The application of tar to the trees, at the time of their ascent from 

 the ground, was found to injure the trees. This injury has been 

 successfully obviated, as I learnt in the practice of an excellent cul- 

 tivator, by first putting a belt of adhesive clay round his trees, and 

 applying the tar upon the clay, which, when the season of the ascent 

 of the millers had passed away, might easily be removed without in- 

 jury to the tree. 



One farmer, in ordinary years, sells 300 barrels of apples. They 

 are picked carefully ; packed in dry barrels ; immediately put into 

 a dry and cool cellar ; and are not usually disposed of until May or 



