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years past I have not succeeded owing as I suppose to 
deficiency of speargrass, they improved as fast as ex- 
pected until the second cut of clover, which caused a 
frothing from the mouth and they would scarcely eat 
sufficient to keep them alive. The economy of feeding 
in this way, has not been exaggerated by reputable 
European writers, in this I think I cannot be mistaken, 
as correct accounts are kept for every field, and trans- 
action of my farm. 
One man and a boy of twelve years old feeds the 
above, together with six horses and three milch cows, 
one bull and a large ox that has. grain, and where the 
grass is good the work is not hard; the manure is worth 
more than their labour, and although Dr. Anderson’s 
mode of making hay under, cover, may be rather visi- 
onary on an extensive scale, here it may, be bencficially 
practised, and not a fork-full lost by over feeding. 
_ Last spring I planted ten acres of Indian corn, the 
rows eight feet three inches distant, hills or rather clus- 
ters at eighteen inches on the rows; and but three plants 
suffered to grow in each. Between the corn, two rows of 
potatoes unplanted two feet three inchesa part; eight acres 
were dunged on the sod mostly clover, the other two 
spread with tolerable rich mould; produce 430 3-4 bush- 
els.corn,and 848 bushels of potatoes. This product though 
not contemptable was far below my expectation, and can 
be accounted; for, the plan was.novel to my ploughman, 
and I could be but little with him, a great deal of the corn 
was removed after up, to make room for the plough, 
muchieft standing with too little room, tothe great injury 
of both crops, and either from the backwardness of the 
-season or some other cause a considerable quantity re- 
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