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present year, was three hundred bushels of shelled corn, very 

 handsome and sound. 



I employ two men, one by the year at $200, and the other 

 seven months, at $16 per month. My sales of milk, vegetables, 

 &c., amount to $3,000 per annum. 



Springfield, November, 1856. 



Mr. Harvey Wolcott's farm was visited June 11th, by foiir 

 directors, the president and secretary. It is beautifully located 

 in the sandstone region of the Connecticut Valley. His mowing 

 of seventy acres, viewed from a gentle elevation in his pasture, 

 presented a fine appearance. No one need seek for a better 

 located farm in New England. Mr. Wolcott has done much to 

 improve his groimds. His sheep, the New Oxfordshire breed, 

 and the only animals of the kind in the county, are very supe- 

 rior. His farm is large and will admit of much more labor 

 being expended upon it than he accounts for, with his own in 

 addition. A larger quantity of manure might be made. The 

 directors were confident that a portion of his mowing would be 

 much benefited by underdraining with tile. We award him a 

 silver pitcher, appropriately inscribed. 



Statement of Harvey Wolcott. 



In the management of my farm, particularly that portion 

 appropriated for mowing and corn land, it has been my practice 

 to plough up about ten acres yearly, say nine inches deep, 

 spreading evenly over the surface twenty-five loads of manure 

 to the acre, mingling it with the soil to the depth of some four 

 inches, and making the whole quite mellow. I then plant with 

 a corn-planter, three and a half by three feet, dropping ashes or 

 plaster with the corn, and performing the remaining labor 

 mostly with a horse and cultivator. If my land inclines to be 

 wet, I do not plough, but subsoil about seven inches deep the 

 first time. I generally obtain from fifty to seventy-five bushels 

 of shelled corn per acre. 



If the land is wet, I stock down with the corn, the last time 

 I run a cultivator through it, sowing one peck of Herds-grass 

 seed upon each acre, which produces a crop that will yield well 

 for five or six years, after which it will want top-dressing, or a 



