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seven or eight cows, and shall keep through the winter nineteen 

 or twenty, selling my milk. I have now, two hogs. 



16. On my farm, I use oxen for farm work. Were my land 

 free' from stones, I should use nothing but horses. Oxen are 

 too slow for a live Yankee, where horses can be worked. 



17. I sell my milk in the summer for eighteen cents a can. 

 My milk bill, monthly, has been, this summer, about 1^30, from 

 five cows, the rest coming in this fall for winter cows, and those 

 I have milli;ed, part of them, coming in, in January and Febru- 

 ary. In regard to the income this winter, I cannot answer, not 

 knowing what I shall receive per can. 



18. Apples, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, quinces, cherries, 

 cranberries, currents and strawberries. 



19. Stone walls. 



20. I answer yes; but precept and practice do not go together 

 with me, as they should do, in this respect. 



21. Growing pigs need milk. Nothing seems to me to be 

 so suitable for them as this article. I therefore believe that the 

 farmer who sells his milk, better keep no more, at the price at 

 which pork has sold for the last eight years, than enough to eat 

 up the waste articles and the swill that is necessarily made in 

 the family. 



22. I have about eight hundred apple trees, little fruit this 

 year ; forty-five or fifty pear trees, fair crops ; two hundred and 

 twenty-five peach trees, bearing well ; forty-five or fifty cherry 

 trees, good crops ; fifteen or twenty j^lum trees ; the curculio 

 took the plums. A few apricots, quinces, chestnuts, &c. 



23. Apple trees, twenty-five to thirty feet, and peaches and 

 cherries, fifteen feet. 



24. I do wash them ; sometimes with whale oil soap suds, 

 sometimes with potash water. 



25. My orchard is so extended that it is impossible to keep 

 the whole in constant tillage ; I therefore endeavor to keep it 

 ploughed and planted, or sowed, about half the time, say 

 three years up and three years to grass. I now speak of 

 my apple orchards. I have found by experience that the Bald- 

 win sufiers the least by neglect, and would, therefore, advise 

 any man, setting out an orchard that he intends shall take care 

 of itself, to be sure and get Baldwins. He will find, however. 



