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green yard manure were spread and harrowed in lightly. Nine 

 loads of well-rotted manure to the acre were put in the hill. It 

 produced 116 bushels of corn, averaging 100 bushels and 10 

 quarts per acre. Another piece of worn land, about the same 

 size, produced 84 bushels of corn. 



Another piece, containing a few rods over an acre of pasture 

 land which had never been manured, was turned over a little 

 while before planting, harrowed lightly, and ten loads of green 

 stable manure put in the hill. The produce was 67 bushels 

 of corn. 



This farmer's whole crop, of which he was kind enough to 

 keep an exact account for me, averaged 70 bushels and 6 qts. 

 per acre. The corn was planted in hills three feet apart each 

 way ; four stalks were allowed to stand in a hill. The seed 

 was planted without preparation. The corn was hoed three 

 times, and a cultivator used each time. 



Two and a quarter acres were in potatoes, on greensward 

 ploughed in May. Ten loads of green manure were put in the 

 hill. The season was unfavorable for potatoes, and the yield 

 only 250 bushels. On a part of the potatoe lands, prepared as 

 above, a third of a gill of gypsum was dropped on the manure 

 upon the seed. Two rows in this same piece were left with- 

 out plaster. The effect was, that the two rows without plaster 

 did not produce half as much as the adjoining rows with plas- 

 ter. The soil here was a stiff loam ; and this farmer is of 

 opinion that plaster has little if any beneficial effect on a light 

 loam. 



The stock on this farm is — oxen, 14 ; cows, and heifers that 

 brought calves, 8 ; young stock, 23 ; horses, 3 ; colts, 2 ; sheep, 

 8 ; hogs, 14. 



The calves are taken from the cow at three days old and 

 taught to drink milk; kept on new milk four weeks ; and then 

 skimmed milk will answer, if half a gill of rye or oil meal be 

 added to two quarts of milk. They are weaned at twelve 

 weeks old. 



Five calves were raised. Seven hundred lbs. of butter and 



