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c. w. Greene's statement. 



1. The Farm consists of one hundred and sixty atrcs — one liun- 

 dred and twenty acres improved, forty acres timbered. 



2. The soil is sandy loam, generally ; sub-soil, clay, sand and gravel, 

 in various proportions, according to location. There is limestone, usually 

 found in the form of gravel. 



3. To improve the soil of ray farm — deep tillage, then stocking down 

 with clover, add plaster, fifty pounds per acre ; and depasturing with 

 sheep, I consider the most economical method for sandy or gravelly 

 soil. 



4. I plow from eight to ten inches ; it gives capacity to the soil, 

 which enables it to resist the evil effects of extreme wet or protracted 

 drouth. 



5. I have made the following experiments in relation to deep plow- 

 ing: — Sandy soil plowed five inches, produced fifteen bushels wheat 

 per acre ; same soil plowed ten inches, gave thirty. Clay loam plowed 

 four inches, produced wheat, ten bushels per acre, and same soil plowed 

 ten inches, twenty-five per acre. The lands upon which these trials 

 were made, had been tilled for twenty years previous, without having 

 been recniited. 



6. I use the double plow or jointer for greeji sward, stubble ground, 

 and in all cases for plowing under manure ; it is the plow for general 

 use, in all soiLs with which I am acquainted ; have drained no lands ; 

 have but httle that requires it. 



7. The trees indigenous to the soil, were white, red, and swamp oak; 

 -H bite, black, and blue ash ; red and white, or swamp elm ; white-wood, 

 bass-wood, beech, sugar maple, black walnut, butternut, and cherry, with 

 several other varieties in less abundance. The plants indigenous to the 

 soil, are as follows : blood-root, mandralce, adder-tongue, several varieties 

 of bahn, wild tuniip, &c. 



MANURES. 



8. I apply twenty loads of manure to the acre ; all that accumulates 

 in yards during winter, is removed to the field and plowed under 

 foi" spring crops. 



9. For sandy soil I prefer plowing manure under in its green 

 state. 



