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30 cart-loads pumpkins, 

 Apples, .... 



55 tons good hay, at 15 dollars, 

 5 " swale and meadow hay, at 5 dollars, 



3 " corn-stover, 



4 " straw, 

 8,500 lbs. cheese, at a fraction over 



125 lbs. butter, at 22 cents,. 

 1,883 lbs. pork, at 8i cents, . 

 Small pigs, sold for 

 13 veal calves. 



Estimated value of produce of farm consumed by 

 family is, . . . 



$2,760 07 



In the number of cows I milked were 2 two-years old and 

 3 three-vears old heifers, and one farrow cow. Two of mv 

 heifers lost their bags, so that I did not consider them both 

 worth more than one would have been had their bags not 

 have been injured. I have sometimes averaged 500 lbs. of 

 cheese from a cow, after fatting the calf. 



I have expended considerable in improvements within the 

 last three years. I built a barn 100 by 42 feet, 18 feet posts, 

 with a cellar under the whole, at a cost of $1,700. The mate- 

 rials used were of the best kind, and the work done in a very 

 thorough manner throughout. I have expended on my house, 

 and buildings connected, including front fence, $1,000, and have 

 expended $100 in bringing water from the brook to my house 

 and barn, a distance of 26 rods, by a hydraulic ram. I liave 

 paid $100 for blasting rocks from my mowings and fields, and 

 have built 237 rods of stone wall, at a cost of two dollars per 

 rod. My walls are very heavy. I have dug a trench from one 

 to two feet deep where I have -built wall, for two reasons. 

 One was, I wanted the loam to fill the holes where I blasted 

 rocks, which was no small job, and to make compost manure 

 with. I have expended $25 in reclaiming about an acre of 

 meadow land, and have made it produce twice as much hay, and 

 of excellent quality. I have used about 300 loads of compost 

 manure yearly, and have increased my crop of hay fifty per 

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