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Johnson's treatment, by plowing and cultivating, has 

 proved the reverse and that the land was not impov- 

 erished. You have the statement of Mr. Johnson, one 

 fact, however, Ave think should be stated somewhere, 

 that he has no help except what he hires, so that the 

 present season he could not have had many leisure 

 hours. After viewing his premises and partaking at 

 his bountiful board, thereby having actual demonstra- 

 tion that the household department was well attended to- 

 by Mrs. Johnson and the daughters, in order to make 

 out the day, your Committee visited, in the same 

 neighborhood, the excellent farms of Messrs. Samuel 

 Pitts and N. C. Day, and were amply paid for all trouble 

 by viewing the great improvements made by each of 

 them on their farms. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 

 For the Committee, 



THOMAS BILLINGS, Chairman. 



MARTIN JOHNSON'S STATEMENT. 



FARMS. 



The farm of thirty-eight acres that I entered for 

 premium, I bought in the fall of 1856, without build- 

 ings or fence on it, as a part of your Committee know. 

 Since then I have put up the buildings. The next 

 season I think I cut about six tons of hay, built 250 

 rods of wall, and dug 130 rods of under drain, plowed 

 and re-seeded all of the land that had previously been 

 cultivated, and set about three hundred fruit trees, 

 consisting of Pear, Apple, and Peach, in about equal 



