98 BOARD. OF AGIUCULTURE. 



the farm fire indefiuitelj. The pasture will keep eight cows, 

 two oxen, one horse, and nine young cattle — say, three yearlings, 

 three two-year olds, and three calves. Three heifers, two 

 and a half years old, may be sold every autumn, for beef, at 

 $90. One yoke of oxen will do the work of the farm and 

 pain twenty-five dollars, and be sold for beef each year. 

 Eight cows will produce eighteen pounds of milk, daily, for 

 two hundred and forty days ; in all, thirty-four thousand five hun- 

 dred and sixty pounds of milk, which will make, at twenty-four 

 pounds of milk to one pound of better, one thousand four hun- 

 dred and forty pounds of butter ; which, at 20 cents per pound, 

 is $288. The skim-milk — twenty-four pounds of which will 

 make one pound of pork — will make in pork, one thousand four 

 hundred and forty, pounds, which, at 6|- cents, the average price 

 for the last ten years, is $93.60. Three calves may be raised, 

 and five sold at $7 ; $35. Three three-year old heifers in calf, or 

 for beef, may be sold annually, $90. Four acres of Indian corn, 

 two hundred bushels, or twelve hundred pounds, will make 

 three hundred pounds of pork, allowing four pounds of corn 

 to make one pound of pork, at 6|^ cents per pound, is $195. 

 Three acres of wheat, sixty bushels, at $1.50 per bushel, $90. 

 Three acres of potatoes, three hundred bushels, about the aver- 

 age crop for the last ten years, and 50 cents the average price, 

 $150. Fowls, $20. Profit on oxen, $25. Fruit, $50. Whole 

 amount produce of farm, $1,036.60. 



One man and one woman, will do the work of this farm. 



Cost of man, including board, $26 a month, . $312 00 

 Cost of woman one year, including board $2.50 



a week, . . . . . . . 130 00 



Taxes, blacksmithing, wear of tools, &c., . . 50 00 



Whole expense, $492 00 



Leaving a balance for interest on $4,000, . . 544 60 

 Outlay of $544.60, or more than IS^ per cent. 



" The crops being all consumed on the farm, the land will be 

 kept good. I hav-e pursued for thirty years a similar course to 

 this, except I have raised stock instead of keeping dairy cows ; 

 |,he grain and grass crops being all consumed upon the farm, 



