Expehces and Profits of a Dairy. 97 



task, and their wages as stated, a full reward. The 

 marketing is supposed to be done by the man, who is al- 

 lowed eight cents, each time for expences, exclusive of 

 horse standing at the city stable, ferriage and turnpikt 

 toll. Nothing is allowed for the bull, except his sum- 

 mer pasture, as it must be bad management, if he does 

 not sell in the autumn, for more than he cost in the 

 spring; his manure also is to be taken into considera- 

 tion . The allowance for replacing dairy cattle is thought 

 to be trifling, as they are most frequently sold, with pro- 

 per management, when turned off for grazing, for more 

 than their prime cost; their manure is supposed equi= 

 valent to their summer pasture. 



The neat profit then is S 3810 19 for eight years; 

 this sum divided by eight gives S 476 27 cents; which 

 being again divided by 20, (the number of cows,) will 

 give the average per head, viz. twenty three dollars, 

 and eighty one cents, 



BlocJdey, April 20th, 1807, 

 Siry 



My farm consists of about tw^o hundred and eighty 

 acres, thirty of which are w^ood land, and ten of natu- 

 ral meadow and homestead inclosures; consequently 

 there remain about two hundred and forty acres of ara- 

 ble land; which are divided into thirteen inclosures of 

 unequal sizes: my general mode of cultivation, is two 

 succeeding summer crops, first indiancorn, and second- 

 ly oats, the stubble of which is ploughed and sown with 

 winter grain ; the succeeding spring, the land is so^vn ' 

 with clover, orchard grass, and timothy seed. Several 



of the inclosures are so pestered with p;arlick, as to se- 



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