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10. I liave used plaster for Ayheat and clover, sown in Apiil, fiO fb?. 

 ^ acre, and in every case witli marked results. 



TILLAGE CROPS. 



11. Thirty acres are tilled the present season — ten in wheat, fift/>,en 

 In com, five in oats, potatoes, &c. 



12. For all crops I plow but once — from eight to twelve inches 

 deep ; the harrow and cultivator then does up the work. My wheat if? 

 sown from the twenty-fifth of August to the tenth of September ; one 

 bushel and eight quarts per acre. Average yield for the last three 

 yeai-8, 25 bushels per acre. My corn is planted about the 20th of 

 May — six quarts to the acre, and thinned out if required. As soon as 

 the rows can be followed without difficulty, the cultivator is started, 

 and run as long as there is a weed or a ' blade of grass to be seen, 

 during the season. Tlie corn is cut up at the ground as soon as it is 

 sufficiently ripe, for the purpose of saving the fodder; the average yield 

 is 50 bushels per acre, but in consequence of the extreme drouth, it was 

 somewhat less the present season. 



13. My manure is plowed under, from eight to ten inches, for all 

 field crops. 



14. My potatoes have not been aficcted with any disease. 



GRASS LANDS, AC. 



15. I have of grass, three varieties — timothy, red-top and clover; in 

 seeding with clover, I sow six quarts with two of timothy, per acre, 

 and prefer seeding upon wheat in the month of September, for sandy 

 soil. I am not in the dairy business, but suppose timothy, red and 

 white clover, to be best adap^d for such purposes. 



16. I usually mow twenty acres for hay; average product, two toes 

 per acre ; my gTass is cut when the seed is full, but not ripe ; for ma- 

 king hay I have but one rule: after mowing down, it remains until wi]- 

 ted, then put up in small cocks, where it stands until thoroughly ew- 

 ed. 



17. 'My meadow land is all suitable for the plow. 



1 8. I have no bog or peat lands. 



19. My plan for destroying weeds is as follows: plow deep and plant 

 to corn ; cultivate, plow and hoe, suffering nothing to live but the corn 

 during the season ; aboiit the first of September, sow to wheat amorie 

 the corn, next the clover seed and plaster — this operation destroys weeds . 



