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buildings, without capital to start with, is up-hill work; but to 

 remove an old wall, to clear up a field of brush, to dig and blast 

 out stone and make everything smooth, to drain a swamp pro- 

 ducing nothing but brush, frogs, mosquitoes, snakes and all 

 sorts of filth and slime, to make it produce three tons good hay 

 per acre each year, has for me a peculiar charm which can be 

 found in no other department of labor, and besides, it must pay 

 in the long run. 



Alden Derby. 



Statement of D. S. Eaton. 



My farm, which was entered for premium in 1869, contains 

 60 acres ; about 21 in mowing and tillage, 26 in pasture, and 

 10 in woodland. I cut, on an average, about twenty tons of 

 hay, using Wood's one-horse mower on all but about one acre. 

 I usually have some surplus hay to sell. I raise about twenty 

 bushels of wheat annually, called coffee wheat, and generally 

 corn enough for family use and for fattening my swine. I have 

 raised none this year, however, believing that when a ton of hay 

 will buy a ton of meal, it is better to sell hay and buy meal. 



Last fall I ploughed 1| acres of greensward, and this spring 

 put on about thirty loads of manure to the acre ; harrowed and 

 sowed | acre with grass seed and barley, from which I threshed 

 twenty -six bushels of barley. The remainder I ploughed this 

 spring, manured, and sowed 15 rods with Swedish turnips from 

 which I raised seventy-six bushels. The rest I planted with 

 Early Rose potatoes which yielded me ninety bushels. In June 

 I broke up an acre of grass ground, manured and planted ^ of 

 an acre with fodder corn, from which I raised a heavy crop. 

 July ^Oth I manured and sowed English turnips on | of an acre, 

 and harvested twenty-five bushels. I cultivate garden vegeta- 

 bles enough for home consumption, and some for the market. 



I keep four cows, a yoke of steers, two or three other young 

 cattle, and one horse ; also, about three dozen hens from which 

 I sell about $100 worth of eggs per year. I feed them with 

 refuse fish from the market, in addition to their other food. 



I commenced, after haying in 1869, to ditch and level about an 

 acre of rough mowing, ploughed the knolls, took out the stones 

 and left it on account of heavy rains. In August 1870, I fin- 

 ished ditching and levelling, spread on a coat of manure and 



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