FARMS. 



117 



EXPENSES. 



Interest on improved land, buildings, and 



stock, . 

 Taxes on the above, 

 Labor, 



3 tons salt hay, . 

 Manure applied, . 

 Grass seed. 

 Keeping cows and sheep one year, 



Halifax, November 15, 1862. 



$707 00 

 $259 10 



Statement of Austin J. Roberts. 



The farm offered for the society's premium contains one 

 hundred sixty-seven acres, divided as follows : — 



Acres mowing and tillage land, 



pasture, 

 woodland, 

 bog meadow. 



30 

 60 

 50 

 27 



167 



The soil is gravelly, subsoil sand, and in parts yellow loam, 

 intermixed here and there witli clay. The mowing and tillage 

 land, for the most part, is of an uneven character; in portions 

 hilly. This farm has been for many years unproductive, pro- 

 ducing little hay, no fruit, and but a small amount of the 

 cereals ; the greater part of the tillage land might have been 

 well compared to " poverty-stricken ryc-fields," upon which 

 nothing else than an occasional crop could be profitably 

 grown. This was the state of things when a renovation com- 

 menced, and a systematic course of farming was introduced. 



The situation of the farm was always pleasant, being nearly 

 surrounded by a chain of lakes and commanding them from 

 almost every point; but of late years, much has been done by 

 art, and the place made doubly attractive by the setting out, 

 from time to time, of hundreds, if not thousands of evergreens 



