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acres, was all treated to a light dressing of compost, and imme- 

 diately after, to one bushel of plaster per acre. The yield of 

 the first crop is estimated to be eighteen tons. One acre of 

 clover and Herds-grass filled a scaflbld thirty feet in length by 

 twelve in width, to the height of ten feet, the hay being esti- 

 mated to weigh four tons. In cutting over portions of my land 

 for the second crop, I obtained two tons more, making in all, 

 twenty tons. About the last of July, one hundred and fifty 

 rods of the mowing land were ploughed for turnips, and 

 manured with five cords of compost and eight bushels of oyster 

 shell lime. The turnips were sowed on the first day of August, 

 and at this writing, are not yet harvested. The estimated yield 

 is four hundred bushels. 



Third, Pasturage. — Twelve acres are set apart for my pas- 

 ture ground, which is treated to seventy-five pounds of plaster 

 once in two years ; and two years since it was further enriched 

 by ten cords of compost, consisting of muck, leaves, ashes and 

 lime. The pasture furnishes ample support for five cows. 



My dairy consists of four cows over five years old, and one 

 three-year-old heifer. They have been furnished with the best 

 quality of hay in winter, and with turnips while they lasted. 

 The product of merchantable butter from this dairy, during 

 seven months of the present year, was as follows : — 



April, 2 cows the wliole, and 3 part of the month, 

 May, 3 cows, ........ 



June, 4 cows the whole, and 5 part of the month, 

 July, 5 cows, ........ 



August, 5 cows, ........ 



September, 5 cows, ....... 



October, 4 cows, ........ 



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The quantity of milk consumed in family use during the 

 same period, was four hundred and thirty-eight quarts. As 

 two of the cows will give milk all the coming winter, being 

 farrow, and as two more, which yielded ten pounds of butter 

 per week, each, during the last winter, will come in early, the 

 total product from this dairy of five cows for the year, may be 

 reasonably stated at not less than eleven hundred pounds. I 



