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ty with strict economy. His facilities for making manure 

 were found to be such as must answer the purpose for which 

 they were intended, and let nothing be lost. One barn ninety 

 by thirty-six feet, and one fifty by thirty feet, with cellars 

 under the whole, with suitable out buildings, were found to 

 contain keeping and stabling for some fifty head of cattle and 

 horses, so arranged as to insure to them the utmost comfort 

 and care, together with cleanliness. The house we found fit- 

 ted and furnished in the modern style of beauty, elegance and 

 comfort, which ought to satisfy any man who knows how to 

 prize and enjoy them, and which we were satisfied from un- 

 mistakable evidence, was managed by a presiding spirit, fully 

 competent to the task, whose viands were dispensed with a 

 liberal hand. These buildings, save the small barn, have all 

 been built, with all their appurtenances, by Mr. Adams. His 

 land, mostly extending north from the house, consists of one 

 hundred acres, making his farm extend a long distance from 

 his buildings, consequently greatly increasing the expense of 

 his field operations. Deducting sixteen acres of wood land 

 and two of unimproved pasture, it has all been thoroughly 

 subdued by the plow and divided into suitable and convenient 

 lots by heavy stone wall, including in the whole one thonsand 

 and fifty rods, making an average of forty-two rods yearly for 

 twenty-five years, besides carting, by his estimation, stone 

 enough for five hundred more, during the same time. These 

 fields we found throughout, smooth and handsome, though 

 some were very uneven from being upon a side hill, and most 

 of them supplied with water in troughs. By this judicious 

 arrangement he is enabled to use them alternately, for tillage, 

 mowing, and pasturing, as his convenience or interest may 

 require. In making all these improvements, and alterations 

 in the land, by levelling rough and unsightly, as well as unpro- 

 ductive places, and filling deep, inconvenient hollows, almost 

 countless loads of dirt must have been used, yet no scar or 

 hole was visible from whence it came, except where . he had 

 built a bank wall from five to seven feet high for some forty 



