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making the hay did not know whether it 

 was worth putting together, or not, expect- 

 ing that it would not be sold ; but, contrary 

 to my supposition, it was readily bought by 

 the stable-keepers at nine pounds per ton. 

 It was, however, a dry summer ; and this 

 is not the usual price : five pounds being 

 about the average, one year with another, 

 at Baltimore; at Philadelphia and New- 

 York not so much. The twenty-six acres 

 cut fourteen tons of hay, which brought me 

 one hundred and twenty-six pounds, while 

 the cakes for the cows (a much better feed) 

 eost me only seventy-eight pounds fifteen 

 shillings. They milked very well on that 

 sort of food, with the addition of Indian 

 corn, blades, stalks, corn, and cobbs, all 

 chopped up together ; but very little of this 

 mixture served with the cakes. The milk 

 was much liked ; and the greater part of the 

 cows got fat, and were sold to the butchers. 

 This was the first thing of the kind done 

 in America, and very much surprised 

 many gentlemen of my acquaintance ; and 



