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after removing the English hay, and was now nearly fit for fod- 

 der, and would probably be fit for seed in a week more. Mr. 

 P. had sown three quarts of seed upon about forty rods, and the 

 crop was luxuriant. 



A field of white beans, nearly ripe, was shown us, where a 

 crop of rareripe onions had been grown this year, and sold at 

 market. Both the crops upon his land have grown and ripened 

 in less time than the pea bean alone would have required, 

 although the latter may be preferred by some for table use. 



The field containing the above mentioned crops of millet and 

 beans, has also near the middle of it, an object of curiosity in 

 the well of water dug and used by Gen. Putnam, before men- 

 tioned. It is apparently rather a hinderance to farming opera- 

 tions, but its historical interest preserves it, and it is to be 

 hoped it always will. 



Mr. P. manures his potatoes in the hill ; the Chenangoes and 

 Kidneys, at the time of our visit, showed some signs of disease, 

 while the hardy black potato was resisting it bravely as usual. 

 The rot, however, has this year been arrested by some agent as 

 mysterious in its operation as was that which produced the rot 

 itself; and that invaluable esculent is abundant, and of unusu- 

 ally large size, although almost every where else, if not here, 

 the seed planted has this year been of small size ; a fact of dis- 

 agreeable import to most speculating writers upon this subject. 



Mr. Putnam manures his carrot land with muscle bed mud, 

 at the rate of six cords to the acre. For onions he uses both 

 ashes and barn-yard manure. Mr. P. does not raise all his corn 

 in one field, but in different lots, and on soils somewhat differ 

 ent. One object gained by this arrangement is, that he can 

 try different varieties, as he avers, some three or four, ^vithout 

 intermixture ; also, the effect of different manures may in this 

 way be contrasted. A^ piece of one-half an acre was shown, 

 manured with one-fourth night soil and three-fourths meadow 

 mud, looking finely. 



Mr. Putnam had reclaimed five acres of meadow, but the 

 railroad cutting through it has produced peculiar effects, injur- 

 ing the hay crops, though improving some others. Apple trees 

 upon the reclaimed meadow grow luxuriantly. 



The dairy upon this farm is managed differently from that in 

 towns remote from market. Mr. P. keeps nine cows. They 



