FARM STATEMENTS. 



FARM OF GEORGE GEDDES. 



Luther Tucker, tlsq,. 



Cor. Sec. of JV*. Y. State Agr. Sac. 



The following answers to the interrogatories of the New- York 

 State Agricultural Society, are respectfully submitted : x 



1. My home farm consists of three hundred acres. Thirty are in 

 Avood, About ten acres of the side hills are unsuitable for plowing, 

 and are only used for pasture ; the remainder is under cultivation, 

 except what is required for roads, yards, &c. 



2. The soilis principally a disintegrated gypseous shale, it being the 

 first stratum below the Onondaga lime, running up to and takino- in 

 some sixteen acres of the lime, which is covered with about one foot 

 of soil. This is in the wood lot, and furnishes quarries of good 

 stone. There were formerly a few cobble stones on the surface, and 

 one very large granite boulder. A small brook running through the 

 farm is bordered by about forty acres of soil that has been deposited 

 by the brook, and is not suited to the production of wheat. In the 

 valley of the brook is found marl and peat, and at the springs that 

 •come from the hill sides calcareous tufa. 



3. I consider the best modes of improving the soil of my farm, to 

 be deep plowing, application of barn yard manure, free use of sul- 

 phate of lime, and frequent plowing in crops of clover. 



4. Unless I am plowing in manure, I plow from six to eight inches 

 deep. Deep plowing upon the gypseous shales, never fails to in- 

 crease fertility. Full triels justify my speaking with confidence on 

 this point. 



5. I have not used the sub-soil plow, as I have no retentive sub- 

 isoil on my farm. 



6. I apply my barn yard manure in large quantities at a time, pre- 



