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something more than a mile of stone wall, made from stone quarried 

 from the quarries mentioned. These walls are built four feet ten inches 

 high, two and a half feet thick on the ground, and eight inches thick 

 on top, having the same slant on both sides, and laid straight and 

 strong. This fence costs me $1.50 a rod, and I build fifty rods or 

 or more every year, upon a system of fencing that in time will put an 

 end to further expense. The board fence costs from 88 to 100 cents a 

 rod. There is a considerable portion of my fences of rails, mostly 

 cedar, but no new rails are made. As to the condition of my fences, I 

 would respectfully refer to the report of the committee on farms for 

 this year, for the county of Onondaga, a copy of which report is 

 attached. 



34. Most of my fields have been measured, but sometimes more than 

 one kind of grain is raised in a field — and thus the amount of ground 

 covered by each kind of grain is not always accurately known. All 

 the grain raised on the farm is measured, and the measurements entered 

 in books kept for that purpose by proper men. The work hired by the 

 day is entered in these books, and any other thing that appears of 

 sufficient importance. 



These memorandum books furnish most of the materials for a farm 

 book which is kept by myself. 



From the farm book, it appears that there have been nine hundred 

 and twenty-seven days' work done on the farm, from the 1st day of 

 April to the 1st day of November. This account covers all the work 

 done in drawing plaster, sowing it, drawing out manure, threshing and 

 delivering so much of the grain in market, as has been sold, and all 

 other men's labor on the farm. There have been produced on the 

 farm five thousand six hundrd and forty-three bushels of grain, aside 

 from garden vegetables. Besides this, sixty-six loads of hay. 



As the grain is sold, entries are made in the farm book, of the price 

 it brings; and that part of the products of the farm that is kept for 

 home consumption, is estimated at the price it is worth in market. 

 Thus arrived at, the grain and hay raised this year was worth three 

 thousand five hundred and twenty -three dollars and seventy-nine cents. 



I have no means of determining the value of the pasture, fruit and 

 many other things produced on the farm, nor the cost of team work. 



GEO. GEDDES. 



Fair Mount, Onondaga county, JV. F., Dec. 31, 1845. 



