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After the wheat is up, he spreads upon the crop about 20 bush- 

 els of ashes to the acre. In this way his success has been very 

 good. 



6. Shelburne. — Acres, 285, exclusive of woodland. 



Rotation of crops. — First year, corn ; second year, wheats 

 oats or barley, and stocked down with grass seed. The land 

 remains in grass usually six years. The grass seed is usually 

 sowed with the spring grain, at the rate of twelve quarts of 

 herdsgrass and redtop to the acre. Spring wheat is sowed at 

 the rate of two bushels to the acre. Of rye, three pecks of 

 seed are sowed to the acre. 



Plaster is applied as a top-dressing on all the stiff loams. 

 The moist grass land, which is unsuitable for tillage, is dressed 

 with barn and compost manure once in three or four years, — 

 about 20 or 25 loads to the acre. 



Twelve to fifteen acres of this farm are usually in tillage. 

 Eight to ten loads of manure to the acre are applied when In- 

 dian corn is manured in the hill ; and from twenty to twenty- 

 five loads when it is spread. 



Greensward, for planting, is usually turned over in April. 

 Twenty or twenty-four loads of manure are spread and har- 

 rowed in ; but care is taken not to disturb the sod during the 

 cultivation. 



The mowing land consists of 36 acres upland, and the aver- 

 age crop exceeds two tons to the acre. Six acres of the mow- 

 ing land are occasionally irrigated. The crop and the quality 

 of the hay are greatly improved by this process. There are 

 mowed, likewise, eight or nine acres of low land, averaging 

 two tons of English hay to the acre- Five acres were planted 

 in corn. One and a half acre planted on oat stubble ; the 

 stubble was turned under in August ; the land ploughed again 

 in the spring. Ten loads of well-rotted manure were put in 

 the hill. The crop was 86 bushels of corn. 



Another piece in greensward was turned over in April, con- 

 taming one acre and twenty^five rods. Twenty-five loads of 



