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cultivated by the Pickmans, fathers and sons — the very name 

 of whom is a guaranty for superior cultivation. The pre- 

 sumption we think is a fair one that it has been cultivated, 

 and cropped, too, to the apparent extent of its capabilities for 

 all of one hundred and thirty years, and yet is now far in ad- 

 vance of itself at any former period. What a comment on 

 those who, after a few years of trial, sell out and " go West," 

 or somewhere to find unexhausted land ! 



But the Committee feel that it would be invidious to draw 

 comparisons between the present and former years. Dr. Lor- 

 ing has been in possession for five years. In that time, as 

 respects the single article of English hay, it can be said with 

 truth, that upon the land where the grand experiment of un- 

 derdrainiug has been made, the fifteen hundred pounds of hay 

 to the acre has become twelve thousand. It is not pretended 

 that all the crops have advanced in this proportion ; but as a 

 whole the state of the farm is greatly improved. 



The owner is also the dweller upon the soil ; and although 

 much of the management is no doubt left to Mr. Ham, the 

 superintendent, yet the owner is familiar with all the details, 

 and may be said to direct almost all. Dr. Loring's extreme 

 and minute acquaintance with each animal of his extensive 

 stock, struck the Committee with both delight and surprise. 



A full statement relating to the buildings and fences will 

 follow this report. We do not feel that we do justice to this 

 farni, nor that it is possible to do it after enjoying only two 

 visits to its hundreds of acres. It this moment occurs to us 

 that there is a fine field, of seven acres, by the side of the road 

 from the farm into the city proper, which was ploughed after 

 the hay crop was taken ofi", and which has since been manured 

 and laid down again, with the new grass well under wav for * 

 the next year. 



But enough we think has been said to prove our point, viz ; 

 Tliat soils may be improved ad libitum — by which is meant, like 

 the Pickman Farm, they may become ligneous and no longer 

 lierhaccous merely — that is, they may be growing upon old 



