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22. For wintering cattle I prefer com fodder, cut straw and meal, 

 good stabling for shelter, water twice a day. 



23. The milk and butter made from three cows is used in the family. 



24. I usually keep 250 sheep, of the French and Spanish Merino 

 breeds ; average four pounds per fleece ; sold the last year for fifty cents 

 per pound. One hundred produce lambs, and have reared over that 

 number for the three past years. No lambs are sold to the butcher. 

 At three years old, they bring from three to five dollars. 



25. Cornstalks, hay and roots, I regard the best and most economical 

 food for wintering sheep. For shelter, sheep barns, for those who are 

 prepared to build them. I have lost no sheep for the last three win- 

 ters. 



26. I have twenty-five head of swine. Grade, but of superior quality ; 

 feed on com and corn meal. A portion are usually killed at ten months 

 old, the remainder at twenty months ; average weight of the former, 

 250, latter 400 pounds. 



27. Have made no experiments to show the relative value of roots 

 compared with com or other grains. 



28. My orchard Consists of about seventy trees, all grafted fruit. The 

 following are among the varieties : Rhode Island Greenings, Spitzen- 

 burg, seek-no-further. Prince's harvest, NewtowTi pippin, golden russet, 

 northern spy, Baldwin, &e. 



29. Of other fruit, I have only peaches worthy of notice. 



30. My trees have received no injury from insects. 



31. Plowing in manure, planting and hoeing among the trees, with 

 careful pruning occasionally, is the mode of treatment. 



32. I think of nothing under this head that has not been noticed in 

 previous answers. 



FENCES, BUILDINGS, &C. 



33. My buildings were erected some twenty years since by a former 

 occupant, and are not such as I would recommend in this report. 



34. My fences are made of oak and ash rails, eight rails high, the 

 comers resting upon large flat stones. 



35. The produce of my farm is measured or weighed with care, and 

 noted down occasionally. 



36. I keep accounts and can exhibit with a degree of accuracy the 

 result of each year's operation. This practice is absolutely essential to 

 the farmer. 



