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Potatoes, — The potatoes raised on the farm were all planted 

 on new land — a small portion on the cleared field referred to, 

 and the remainder on pasture-land cleared for the purpose. 

 The latter had no manure, except a handful of plaster in each 

 hill. The seed was Jackson Whites, and an excellent T^otato 

 brought from Maine bj my foreman. Tliose raised in the 

 pasture-land were smooth, of uniform size, very mealy, equal to 

 the Chenango in its best days. The yield was a bushel to 

 twenty-.two hills. 



The cabbages raised were the late Savoy and Drumhead, 

 planted on new land, manured with barnyard manure in the 

 hill. 



The land occupied by the crops referred to was as follows : — 

 Barley, five and one-half acres ; corn, fourteen acres ; potatoes, 

 four acres ; mangel wurzel, one and one-fourth acres ; ruta- 

 baga, two and one-half acres ; carrots, ninety rods ; rye, one 

 and one-half acres ; rye-grass, two and one-half acres ; cabbages, 

 one-half an acre ; corn fodder, one acre ; kitchen garden, one- 

 half an acre ; making the land devoted to crops, thirty-three 

 and three-quarters acres. 



Of English grass there are seventy-seven acres. 



The amount of crops raised on the farm this year is as 

 follows : — 



English hay, 165 tons. 



Second crop, (a large part being fed on the land 



in the autumn,) ...... 15 



Salt hay, 40 



Eye-grass, 8 



Barley straw, 28 



Corn fodder, 40 



Amount of fodder, 298 tons. 



Ruta-bagas, 1,876 bush. 



Mangel wurzel, 1,800 



Carrots, 600 



Potatoes, 400 



English flat turnip, 50 



Barley, 250 



