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of practical farming, and has shown what skill and hard labor together, 

 can accomplish. 



Number of acres under cultivation is about fifty. Soil a gravelly 

 loam and pretty uniform throughout, except a small piece of swampy 

 muck soil, containing perhaps half an acre. Land is sufficiently level 

 for cultivation, and altogether a nice and valuable farm. The farm 

 has been in possession of Mr. Barnes since two years ago last spring. 

 In regard to rotation of crops, the owner says, "My usual practice is 

 to summer fallow and sow wheat ; after wheat, peas ; then barley, and 

 seed down. This year no summer fallow is sown, the wheat crop to 

 follow peas. Do not plant much corn. This year planted corn on 

 sward and pea ground. I have one span of horses, and one yearling 

 colt, three cows, one two year old heifer, one calf, all of native breed, 

 twenty-one Saxony sheep, and four Berkshire hogs. About 100 loads 

 of manure are annually made on the farm, and fifty loads have bees 

 purchased, since I came into possession of it." Thus far we have quoted 

 from Mr. B.'s statement, and here we cannot refrain from expressing 

 our satisfaction at the admirable practice of Mr. Barnes in the manage- 

 ment of manures. A considerable portion is applied in the spring and 

 the remainder is carefully collected and made into a compost heap, 

 covered with earth, to prevent loss from fermentation, evaporation^ 

 &c. In these days of general neglect in this department of agricul- 

 ture, it is really gratifying to find one farmer who so far studies his 

 own interests, as to give proper attention to the preparation and ap- 

 plication of manures. 



Mr. B. again says, " Fall plowing is much practiced on this farm, 

 and with good effect. Usual depth of furrow, seven inches, although 

 I sometimes plow ten or eleven inches deep, and consider deep plow- 

 ing decidedly best. Farm was in rather bad condition when I pur- 

 chased it." ' 



The crops this year are as follows : 



Wheat, Ik acres. 



Barley, 10 " 



Oats, 3 " 



Peas, 6| " ^ 



Tares, i " 



Corn, 2 " 



Potatoes, 1 " 



Carrots and Ruta Bagas, I " 



Meadow, 11 " 



The remainder of the farm in pasture. The crops all look well^ 

 except grass, which we find light on nearly all the farms in that sec- 

 tion of the county. Indeed, we have seldom found a farm which was 

 better managed in all respects, whether we consider the judicious 

 arrangement of the fields, and rotation of crops, or the more im- 

 portant subject of manures and the superior cultivation of the soil. 

 We found on this farm, (if our memory serves us right, for we made 

 no memorandum of this at the time,) some twelve varieties of peas, 

 all kept separate and distinct, and s6me of the varieties we had never 

 before seen. The buildings are new and not expensive, but perfectly 



