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fruits, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries. The bal- 

 ance is taken up with buildings, yard, garden, and highway. 



ROTATION. 



With the five two acre lots first mentioned, I practice the 

 following rotation : The first year I plow under a clover sod, 

 generally without manure, except on some poor spots. I then 

 plant to corn, using a planter, and planting three and a half 

 feet apart each way. Last year I used a horse planter only, 

 rowing the corn one way ; but I don't like that method as 

 well, as it is much more work to tend it, and I don't think the 

 yield was any better. As soon as the corn is large enough to 

 see the rows plainly, I start the cultivator, and unless the 

 weather is very wet, seldom have to use the hoe. I generally 

 get from eighty to one hundred bushels of ears to the acre of 

 the yellow corn, a rather large variety, which I have greatly 

 improved by careful selection of seed. 



• , The second year I plant one-half the same piece to pota- 

 toes, mostly of the early and late Rose varieties, although next 

 year t shall plant the Beauty of Hebron in place of the 

 Early Rose. I plant them in drills three feet apart, marking 

 out furrows with a small plow, dropping the seed, which has 

 been previously cut, and covering it with the cultivator with 

 the teeth reversed. When the potatoes begin to peep through 

 the ground, I put on the harrow and give them a thorough 

 harrowing. Then after a few days 1 cultivate them. I keep 

 them cultivated until they are in blossom, and then lay them by. 

 The usual yield is from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five 

 bushels. The balance of my lot I sow to oats, and they yield 

 from forty to fifty bushels. As soon as the oats are off the 

 ground, I plow for wheat. After plowing, manure is spread 

 evenly over the surface and harrowed in. The earl}^ potatoes 

 are also dug, and the ground fitted in the same manner. The 

 ground I stir frequently until about the tenth of September, 

 when the wheat is sown with a drill, also putting on one hun 

 dred pounds of superphosphate to the acre, to start the wheat in 

 the Fall. Where the late potatoes were, I sow to oats in the 



