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acres, which rotted some where manured ; six acres of oats, 

 one. hundred and eighty bushels ; four acres of rye, badly winter 

 killed, twenty-four bushels ; one and a half acres of millet, in a 

 reclaimed swamp, and fed off; and one and a quarter acres of 

 turnips, one hundred and fifty bushels. An old pasture, full of 

 rocks, never ploughed before, was ploughed twice, manured, and 

 turnip seed sown, on the 10th of August. Four acres of land 

 have been seeded down with rye, for pasture ; and two acres 

 with oats, for mowing. Four acres of oat, and one and a half 

 of millet land, we designed to have seeded in August, but sick-, 

 ness and the' repairing of buildings prevented. We much pre- 

 fer seeding in August for mowing. The second crop of clover 

 from two acres, was saved for seed ; not yet cleaned. Our 

 orchard products were one hundred bushels of market apples, 

 seven barrels of cider, besides large quantities of apples fed to 

 stock. One man eight months, with two others in haying time, 

 constituted the hired help. 



The ditching was let out, at twenty-five cents per rod. Two 

 hundred and fifty loads of manure have been made ; one hun- 

 dred and fifty applied to planting and one hundred to mowing 

 lands. The cattle are yarded at night, through the season ; 

 turf and litter of all kinds are carted in, and the yard cleared 

 three times a year, in May, August and November. We are 

 well satisfied that a nmch larger quantity of manure might be 

 made from the amomit of stock we keep, and that it would pay 

 for the extra labor required in making it. We use plaster and 

 ashes with nuich benefit. Our rocky side-hill pastures produce 

 double the feed, by sowing plaster every other year. Other 

 foreign minerals, and patent manures we prefer not to use, so 

 long as animal manures are wasting on the farm for want of 

 attention. 



We submit the above disconnected statements for the consid- 

 eration and disposal of the directors. 



South Wilbraham, November, 1856. 



Statement of Phineas Stedman. 



My farm contains about fifty acres, lying in four separate 

 lots. 



No. 1 is the " Home Lot," and contains about sixteen acres, 



