FARMS. Ill 



This present year the same forty -four acres of cultivatable 

 land has yielded as follows : — 



One-fourth aero ruta-bagas yielded 2 tons 75 pounds. 



One-fourth acre mangolds yielded 10 tons 1,581 pounds. 



Three-fourths acre carrots yielded 9 tons 1,635 pounds ; esti- 

 mated forty per cent, rotten. 



Two acres winter-rye for fodder, mostly cut green, yielded 

 also 1,300 pounds straw and 8 bushels 47 pounds rye. 



One and one-fourth acres corn-fodder, cut one acre green 

 and cured 3 tons 340 pounds (dried). 



One acre onions yielded 243 bushels marketable, 18 bush 

 els small ; and where onions were killed, sowed ruta-bagas, 

 which yielded 2 tons 1,086 pounds; estimated that five per 

 cent, onions were rotten and a large per cent, killed by hail 

 and cut-worm. 



Four and one-fourth acres potatoes yielded 617 bushels ; 

 estimated thirty-three per cent, rotten. 



One-half acre kitchen-garden ; a late crop of 1^ tons small 

 turnips. 



One-fourth acre nurseiy of a variety of young trees im- 

 ported from England. 



Six and one-half acres mossy field, not yet ploughed, but to 

 be turned up this autumn. 



One-fourth acre occupied by stone walls. 



One acre Hungarian grass yielded 3 tons. 



Twenty-five and three-fourths acres grass-land yielded 49 

 tons 1,320 pounds, much of which had been scantily manured 

 and seeded with white-clov* and redtop, intending it for 

 pasture, but all of which had been seeded down by myself. 



There are also a few apple-trees in good bearing condition 

 about the buildings, and I have also set out some young trees 

 in the same locality. A number of ornamental trees have 

 also been set out. 



The land where mangolds, carrots and onions were sown 

 was in each case divided into quarters and fertilized with the 

 following chemicals in addition to barn-yard manure, but either 

 the remarkable season, the rot, or the cut-worm have pre- 

 vented my experiment from being useful, and I only give the 

 chemicals applied : — 



One-fourth without any fertilizer, one-fourth with one hun- 



