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Taylor's estimate in folding makes 1. cow fold 7/10 of an 

 acre in a year. This makes 1. cow equal to 18. sheep. 



Rotted dung. cattle, little & big, will make 10 loads [cubic yds] 

 in 6. months if well littered. Logan. D. M. Randolph. 



25. such loads serve to manure an acre. Logan. 



it would be well worth while to confine & litter cattle in a yard 

 thro' the summer.- Logan. 



each head would then manure an acre a year. 



dung is carried on in Dec. Jan. Feb. 



Marie — an easy method of estimating accurately the quantity of 

 calcareous earth they contain by dropping spirit of nitre 

 till saturated, on that & on unburnt limestone. 



Gypsum a calcareous earth combined with a mineral acid. when the 

 calcareous earth is predominent it is a good manure, when 

 the 2. ingredients are balanced so as to neutralise it per- 

 fectly it is neither good nor bad. when the acid abounds 

 it is injurious. . . . 



POTATOES 



planted alone in drills 5.f. apart, take 8. bushels of seed to the 

 acre, if cut into eyes. 



The unrotted dung of the last winter may be carried out in Mar. Apr. 

 or May, & the potatoe furrow being made, & potatoes dropped in. 

 This dung is then put over them, trodden in, & covered with a 

 thin coat of earth. Mr Taylor thinks this much the most 

 oeconomical way of using dung. it becomes well rotted & in a 

 proper state for the succeeding crop of grain. 



1795, Dec. Colo. N. Lewis', this year in drills 4 f. apart yielded 

 5 bush, to 140 yds. in the row - 130 bush, for a acre, he says 

 a hand will dig | of an acre per day, say 43. bushels per day. 



