GENTLEMAN FARMING- 



crops, and one in the fall succeeding the spring ploughing, when the field is put 

 in wheat, the soil is thoroughly pulverized and weeds exterminated. 



In breaking up neiv soil, it is proper to put fifty to one hundred bushels of 

 oyster-shell or stone lime to the acre, and ten to twenty bushels of bone-dust 

 thoroughly pulverized, which in practice is found to be more efficacious than bones 

 dissolved in acid. The manure of the farm is also composted, spread, and 

 ploughed in. 



To many there may be nothing entirely new in all this, but we write and pub- 

 lish for others who are new to the business of farming, and who have seen more 

 of the routine of the counting-house than of the field ; they may here read the 

 experiences of a practical man turning his acres to good and profitable account, 

 a merchant ploughing the ocean at the same time with his clipper ships, banking 

 in town for others, and in various ways contributing to the good of his fellow men. 



On this farm there is a peach orchard of forty acres, the sales from which, in 

 one year, have produced 2000 dollars ; cherries to the amount of 409 dollars have 

 been sold in one season to Baltimore middle-men. 



One of Mr. Liirman's excellent rules is "strict justice to man and beast;" all 

 are treated thus, and with a certain degree of liberality; the hands are thus his 

 attached friends. 



And now for Mr. Liirman's calculations of the profits made by a gentleman 

 farmer : — 



500 acres of land, of which in wood, and pleasure-grounds, orchards, &c., 100 

 acres, at $100 per acre ........ 



Invientori/. 

 12 mules, or horses, or mares, at $125 ..... $1,500 

 20 cows, and bull 



$50,000 



2 ) sows, and boar 



Chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, &c. 

 2 yoke of oxen . 



Implements. 

 2 six mule wagons, for hauling with hay body or harness 

 4 carts and ox carts ...... 



Ploughs, harrows, and all other smaller implements 



Threshing machine fans ...... 



Horse power for six horses ..... 



Furniture for house of hands ..... 



100 sheep ........ 



One year's wages and labor, eight hands and two boys, and finding 

 Fencing, probably ...... 



Seed wheat, corn, oats, clover seed, and timothy 



Keep of horses, cows, &c. ..... 



Manures. — 400 Acres. 

 1st year, 50 bushels lime to the acre .... 

 2d " 10 to 20 bushels bone dust to the acre . 

 Guano on 80 acres wheat, 250 pds., at 2^ . . . 



Family expenses ....... 



1,000 

 200 

 100 

 200 



$500 

 200 

 200 

 100 

 200 

 100 

 200 



2,000 



1,000 

 500 



1,000 



$1,600 



2,000 



500 



3,000 



6,000 



4,100 



1,900 



Capital requisite, or equal to $30 per acre . . • 15,000 



The division of 400 acres arable land in five fields of 80 acres each, and the rotation 

 of crops, as follows : — 



Break up a sod in the autumn and winter : first year, corn ; second year, oats or barley, 

 th ; break np in the autumn, harrow and seed, third year, wheat ; sow clover or timothy ; 

 fourth year, in clover ; fifth, pasture. 



