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with brush, the meadow bearing but little. I ploughed it in 

 the fall of 1846, planted in 1847 with potatoes, manured with 

 about twenty loads to the acre, and June, 1848, sowed oats and 

 grass seed. After cutting the oats I spread, at the rate of about 

 fifteen loads of compost manure, per acre. From this piece, 

 containing one hundred and twenty-five rods, I cut, by estima- 

 tion, two and a half tons of hay, this season, being the first 

 crop. My mode of planting is, plough in the fall, to the 

 depth of eight to ten inches, then roll it smooth, spread the 

 manure in the spring, and plough it in about four inches deep. 

 I plant my potatoes three feet apart each way, and corn three 

 feet and three inches. I use some plaster. 



When the land is suitable for corn, I plant the first year with 

 potatoes, the second with corn, and seed it with grass seed at 

 the last hoeing, making no hills. This way I think is better 

 than to sow grain and grass seed. I have set about sixty apple 

 trees and engrafted most of my old trees ; these now bear some 

 fruit. The last year I raised five hundred bushels of flat tur- 

 nips among my potatoes, most of which I fed to my milch 

 cows in the winter. I cut my poorest hay and mix with it a 

 little rice meal, shorts, or some other kind of grain, giving 

 them from one to two quarts per day each. 



I have a cellar under my barn ; part is used to house my 

 sled, cart, wagons, &c. ; the remainder for the hogs and ma- 

 nure ; the bottom is covered with one and a quarter inch oak 

 boards, laid upon clay, and is as smooth and solid as the barn 

 floor, to keep the manure from leaching, and the hogs from 

 rooting up the bottom ; it is much better shoveling, and I 

 think it better every way. From the products of the farm the 

 last year, including eighteen dollars Avorth of grass bought in 

 the field, and seventy-two dollars paid for corn and meal of 

 various kinds, I have kept three cows, two swine, and one 

 horse, for one-half of the year ; the remainder, twelve cows, 

 eight that gave milk, two oxen, two swine, and one horse, and 

 had three tons of hay left over. The sales are as follows : — 



Milk, |301 00 



Potatoes, 215 00 



