70 



100 bushels radishes, 



Broom corn for 12 dozen brooms, 

 500 roots celery, 

 800 fowls, 

 11600 lbs. pork, 

 10 calves, 

 200 cords manure, 



Apples, plums, peaches, cherries, &c. but few — say 10 

 bushels. 

 Stock kept on the farm, — 



Oxen, average number - _ _ _ lo 



Cows " " - . . . 10 



Horses -- 2 



Bull 1 



Hogs of all ages, ----- 80 



35 acres of ground were cultivated, 

 50 " " '' mowed. 



This farm contains now probably about 110 acres, several of 

 which being ledge, are incapable of cultivation. 



These statements are honorable to the County ; and if, any 

 person would see what judgment, industry, and perseverance 

 can effect under almost every disadvantage, let them visit the 

 farm of Ichabod Nichols, Esq. on the Salem Turnpike, a place so 

 aptly denominated by a traveller "the abomination of desolation ;" 

 where, in the midst ot rocks and bogs, upon which a man must have 

 had the courage of a hero to look with the thoughts of subduing 

 them, we find productive meadows, and well cultivated fields ; and 

 a milk establishment of upwards of thirty cows, alike creditable to 

 the perseverance and productive to the pocket of its indefatigable 

 proprietor. 



The farms in the County can none of them be called large ; and 

 many of them have been subdivided to an injurious extent. If a 

 man has a large family of children to establish, and wishes to form 

 them to the honorable and industrious habits of an agricultural life, 

 we advise him to emigrate into those new countries, where land is 

 fertile and cheap ; and he can form a sort of patriarchal colony 

 around him. The homestead with us is too small to admit of farth- 

 er division. If he wishes to engage largely in the raising of Live 

 Stock, or in the cultivation of Hemp, he is promised, in the fertile 

 alluvions of the Western States, advantages, which are not to be 



