SHORT -HORNS — SHEEP. 725 



the field. The following Spring the field is plowed, put in 

 good condition, and planted in corn in hills three and a half 

 feet apart each way, and three grains in a hill. By this means 

 I have no grub and cut worms, and a good crop has always 

 been the result. I plow up the same field the following Spring, 

 and it is in good condition for oats or barley; after harvesting 

 the oats or barley, the same field is again turned over and 

 seeded with wheat, clover, and timothy seed, and either top 

 dressed with lime or manure. I prefer the lime generally. 



The best time to apply it is when seeding down to grass, 

 although for hill fields that lie exposed to Winter winds, a top 

 dressing has proved very beneficial, as a protection to the 

 wheat plants during "Winter and early Spring, and adds largely 

 to the early start of the young wheat plants where the soil is 

 thin or light. I cultivate twenty to thirty acres wheat, ten to 

 twenty acres in corn, ten to twenty acres in oats or barley, and 

 I cut thirty acres of grass, clover, and timothy mixed. The 

 average yield of wheat is twenty-five to forty-five bushels per 

 acre ; of corn, one hundred to one hundred and fifty bushels 

 per acre ; oats, fifty to seventy bushels per acre. The number 

 of bushels of grain raised per acre is gradually increasing, after 

 forty odd years of continuous farming. 



SHORT-HORNS. 



I have thorough-bred Short-Horns, as they are the most 

 profitable with me, on account of their beef producing quali- 

 ties, as well as their tendency to mature early for beef. I find 

 that by careful selection and proper breeding, the heifers can 

 be bred to produce fine milking qualities, and sold when fresh 

 in milk at three or four years old, at remunerative rates. I 

 keep from twenty to thirty head. 



SHEEP. 



I have bred my sheep from the W. R. Dickison flock, pur- 

 chased by him from the Col. Humphrey's importation of 1802, 

 of pure Spanish Merinos, which have been under my manage- 

 ment since the death of W. R. Dickison, in 1832. I keep a 



