CORN — POTATOES — CATTLE — HOGS. 647 



is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and with favora- 

 ble circumstances the laud yields about twenty bushels of 

 wheat, forty bushels of barley, thirty-five to fifty bushels of 

 rye, sixty to eighty bushels of oats, per acre. 



CORN. 

 For corn, I plow deep in Spring, and plant in check rows, 

 cultivating three times. The yield is about fifty bushels per 

 acre. 



POTATOES. 



I plant Irish potatoes on new ground, well prepared by 

 plowing and harrowing. I drop in drill rows, sixteen inches 

 apart in the row, and the rows are three feet apart. I culti- 

 vate well until they commence blooming, when they are laid 

 by, and their yield is from one to four hundred bushels per 

 acre ; and I challenge the world to beat me in good melons, 

 raised on sod, without cultivation. 



CATTLE. 



I have kept until recently from twenty-five to fifty head 

 of cattle on the farm, I breed graded to full-blooded Short- 

 Horns, and think them the best paying cattle for beef and 

 milk. 



HOGS. 



The particular breed to be preferred depends upon the 

 wants and circumstances of the farmer. If, for instance, he 

 wishes his hogs to run after cattle that he is grain feeding, he 

 naturally would want a breed that could take care of themselves ; 

 and for such purposes I know of no better than the improved 

 Berkshires. But if he wishes to keep his hogs in confined 

 pens, and his conditions are such that he can not let them 

 roam at large, or keep them in extended inclosures (which 

 is the case with us in this new country, where fencing 

 material is scarce), the more docile the breed the better, so that 

 when served with a proper allowance of wholesome food they 

 will lie down contented, grow fat and mature at an early age. 

 As such I know of no better than the well-known improved 



