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together with the labour may be Talued at the moderate price 'of 

 ten dollars per ton, - - - - $110 00 



Ninety bushels of corn, at 75 cents per bushel - 67 50 

 One hundred and fifty bushels potatoes at 25 cents 



per bushel, • - - . - 37 50 



Total value of the produce, labour included, - 215 00 



On the above ten acres I have set out about seventy young ap- 

 ple trees ; about fifty of them are grafted with the best of winter 

 fruit. The orcharding on the rest of my farm is scattered. Many 

 of the trees have within a few years been grafted. 



My stock generally consists of one horse, sometimes two, and 

 about fifteen head of neat stock, composed of four oxen, five cows, 

 and the remainder young cattle, I commonly have from six to ten 

 swine. I think I can estimate the labour on my farm not to exceed 

 that of one man and a boy, with the exception of the hay season, 

 when an additional man is necessary. 

 I am, very respectfully yours, 



JAMES STEVENS, 2d. 



Andover, November 2oih, 1829. 



II. IMPROVEMENT OP WET MEADOW LANDS, 



The Committee on the Improvement of Wet Meadow Land, sub- 

 mit the following 



REPORT :— 

 Parcels of improved meadow or swamp land were offered for ex- 

 amination to the Committee by 



Mr. Jacob Osgood, of Andover ■ 

 Col. Jesse Putnam, of Danvers ; 

 Rev. Henry Colman, of Salem, on his farm in Lynn. 

 Mr. Osgood has reclaimed about two acres of a bog meadow, so 

 soft and spungy that it was very difficult to walk over it without 

 sinking into the mire. The improvement, begun about fifty years 

 ago, and continued from time to time since, has been by draining 

 it, — then putting on sand to the depth of an inch and a half, and 



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