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same amount of hay, and from two to five acres of oats or 

 barley cut for fodder. 



5. Oats and barley, only for fodder. 



0. Potatoes, carrots, ruta-bagas and white flat turnips. 



7. I usually do both — if they sell well, sell most of those that 

 are suitable. 



8. I have seeded my land to grass in the spring, using Timo- 

 thy, redtop and clover, in the following quantities respec- 

 tively : one-fourth bushel, one-half bushel, and from eight to 

 ten pounds of clover, until this year, when I used three-eighths 

 of a bushel of Timothy and three-fourths of a bushel of 

 redtop, but no clover. 



9. Do not. 



10. I apply manure in the form of compost, except on muck 

 land, sometimes spreading and ploughing it under to the depth 

 of six or eight inches, sometimes in the hill, and sometimes 

 both, from six to eight cords per acre. 



11. I once used some of the Lodi Manufacturing Company's 

 poudrette on muck land, for potatoes, but did not think very 

 highly of it, although I think it might be valuable fur early 

 crops, such as sweet corn, pease and vines, to give them an early 

 start — some other manure is needed for the crop. 



12. On muck lands I use the open drain, about four feet 

 wide at the top, three at the bottom, and five feet deep, at a 

 cost of about forty-five cents per rod. On upland I dig a trench 

 about three feet deep, lay an open culvert on tlie bottom, then 

 fill with small stones to within about ten inches of the surface, 

 and cover with soil — considering the cost, in my case, not much 

 more than the digging of a trench, as it makes a convenient 

 place to remove the small stones, which were quite plenty near 

 the place I wished to drain. 



13. About eight inches. 



14. I have at present about one and one-fourth of an acre of 

 wet land, planted with potatoes, which was ploughed three 

 years since, early in the spring, when the ground was frozen 

 to a great depth, and the sun had thawed some four inches on 

 the surface, just enough to relieve the grass roots. AVith a 

 sharp plough it tore up very readily, the oxen walking on the 

 frost beneath. 



