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two yearling heiferj^, two humlieil sheep; sheared 164; product 500 

 pounds of wool, marketed at 31 cents per pound; and one two year 

 old bull, native blood. Barns well arranged, with good and conve- 

 nient cellars for the safe storage of roots, a very good fixture to a 

 farming establishment. Farm house comfortably and conveniently 

 arranged, with a good and productive kitchen garden, and as a plea- 

 sant and very agreeable appendage, a tastefully arranged flower gar- 

 den decorates the front yard, an evidence of the ladies' good taste 

 and industrious habits. 



The second farm to which the attention of your committee was re- 

 quested, is owned by E. D. Cobb, located near the village of Orville, 

 in the town of Dewitt, containing 103 acres; 97 acres neatly and sys- 

 tematically cultivated and impoved under the following divisions or 

 arrangements: 15 acres to wheat, 9 acres to corn, 4 acres to barley, 6 

 acres to oats, 7 acres to peas, 2 acres to potatoes and S acres to mea- 

 dow; 30 acres of good clover pasture, and 10 acres in fallow. All 

 of the above named crops large in growth and of good quality. Mr. 

 Cobb adheres strictly to the rotation system of cropping, and with 

 good success. Stock on the farm consists of five good, serviceable 

 work horses in good condition, 4 cows, 2 yearlings, 100 sheep of the 

 Saxony blood — sheared 84; product 274 pounds; sold at 45 cents 

 per pound in exchange, and 4 Berkshire hogs in pasture, in fine con- 

 dition. Mr. Cobb informed your committee that he plowed in the 

 seed wheat on 7 acres of his fallow in the fall of 1841, about the 1st 

 day of September, and the remaining 8 acres in fallow he sowed with 

 the same kind of wheat about the Gth of September, and harrowed 

 in the same quantity of seed in each case. The soil was the same, 

 but the product was widely different. The part plowed in pi oducecl 

 only about half as much as that harrowed in, and the quality not 

 equal. Therefore your committee are of the opinion that harrowing 

 in seed is the preferable method. 



Mr. Cobb's buildings consist of one good and well finished farm 

 barn, 41 feet by 31, and one shed with hay loft, 70 by 24; one sheep 

 shed, 30 by 16; dwelling house, 20 by 48, two stories, with a wing 

 20 by 30; cellar 20 by 24, the whole finished very neatly from top to 

 bottom, and all necessary outhouses and yards neatly and tastefully 

 arranged; and finally every thing about the establishment exhibited 

 neatness and comfort, and if attended with good health presents do- 

 mestic happiness nearly approaching perfection. 



The third farm your committee visited, is owned by H. Avery, in 

 the town of La Fayette, containing 145 acres, 122 under good and 

 profitable cultivation in the following order: 24 acres to wheat, 18 

 acres to barley, 5 acres to corn, 1 acre to potatoes, 22 acres of mea- 

 dow, 25 acres in fallow in fine condition, 27 acres of pasture, sup- 

 porting in first rate condition, 2 good working horses, 25 head of neat 

 cattle, 44 sheep and some hogs. Mr. A.'s farm is of a rich limestone 

 soil, naturally productive, and aided by skillful farming produces ve- 

 I ry largely. He makes no use of plaster; thinks his soil is sufficient- 



ly able to produce without stimulating. Every thing in and about 

 the establishment indicates contentment and domestic happiness. Mr. 



