36 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



J. F. IngalVs Statement. 



My farm contains about one hundred and sixty acres. Most 

 of it was my father's. Six years since, I came in possession of 

 it. I then kept one horse, four oxen, eight cows, and two or 

 three young cattle. 



I then cut but little more hay than was consumed by my 

 stock ; since, I have added to their number, so that I now keep 

 two horses, four oxen, twenty cows, one bull, and one two- 

 year old heifer. This stock is supplied by the produce of the 

 farm, (except a part of the meal and the shorts, which I pur- 

 chase.) The cows yielding milk, I feed, in part, with roots, 

 shorts, and meal. 



The labor in summer, is performed by myself, three men and 

 a boy, — one added during the haying, — and by two hands in 

 the winter. One goes to market, once or twice a day, with 

 milk and vegetables, through the year. 



This year I have planted 3 acres in corn, to ripen, 



2 '' in corn fodder, 

 2| " in potatoes, 

 2 " in vegetables. 



My farm is divided into upland, mowing, and tillage, — about 

 thirty-eight acres ; and of reclaimed meadow that has been 

 mowed, twelve acres. Also, three acres seeded down in August 

 and September, the present year. Seventeen acres still remain- 

 ing uncultivated. The upland I plough deep, and manure with 

 compost, which I make chiefly from the droppings of the cat- 

 tle, horses, and hogs, including the urine, with peat muck. I 

 have used stable manure and leached ashes, but do not consider 

 stable manure profitable at four dollars per cord, composed, as 

 most of it is, of litter or straw, in too great proportions. 



About ninety acres is pasture, sixteen acres of which being 

 covered with wood. I have recently cut it off, and applied 

 gypsum to two-thirds of it, and find it profitable. 



My manner of reclaiming swamp, or meadow land, is as fol- 

 lows : — The first lot, containing about seven acres, — mud from 



