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SECTION IV. 



The regular Proceedings on the Farm. 



I FOUND the cows much improved, and 

 my stock increased: the ewes having lamb- 

 ed; and the imported sow I bought, pigged: 

 and all was very well in the farm. The 

 cows had grown what is considered fat in 

 America, on the oil-cakes. It was time to 

 sow oats, timothy-seed, plant early potatoes^ 

 &c. ; so I set to work again. 



I set half an acre of early potatoes, in drills 

 eighteen inches asunder, with some com- 

 post made from the last year's manure ; and 

 a very good crop they proved, at the rate of 

 three hundred and sixty bushels per acre 

 when full-grown. 



Having ploughed the land that was in 

 corn the year befftre, I next sowed seven- 

 teen acres of oats and six acres of barley. 

 It is usual to sow one bushel of barley, oats, 



