BARNSTABLE SOCIETY. 351 



In 1828 I built a house on the premises, 37 by 30 feet, with 

 a cellar under the whole of it. In 1830 I built a barn, 30 feet 

 square and 16 feet post ; and in 1848, finding it not large 

 enough, I enlarged it 14 feet each way, which makes it 44 feet 

 square. I also dug a reservoir, 18 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 4 

 feet deep, and stoned it up and cemented it, which makes it 

 water tight. This reservoir I consider the most economical 

 part of my improvements, it being directly under the stalls — 

 into it are concentrated all the excrements and liquid manure 

 from the cattle. I have also built a large cistern under the 

 shed attached to the barn, which affords a plenty of water for 

 my cattle and hogs, in the barn yard during the year. The 

 soil of my farm is a portion of it a sandy gravel, and the re- 

 mainder loam and clay subsoil. 



I have, this year, in tillage, seven and a half acres, viz. ; 3| 

 of corn, Ig of oats, 1 of barley, and f of an acre of potatoes, ^ 

 turnips, and | an acre in garden. The corn crop looks fair, 

 though much blown down by the wind. The barley is thresh- 

 ed, and measured 45^ bushels ; the oats measured 53 bushels. 

 The potato crop coming in tolerably well as to quantity, al- 

 though some rotten. I have, in mowing, about eight acres, 

 which yielded something over sixteen tons of good English 

 hay, besides a large quantity of rowen, estimated at 3^ tons. 

 The rest of my land is in grass, on which I pasture my cows. 



My stock consists of one yoke of oxen, three cows, two beef 

 cattle, two heifers and two calves, one horse, and seven hogs. 



I have made within the last twelve months, 360 ox cart 

 loads of manure, consisting of about one-third part of sea and 

 rock weed, one-thjrd part of muck and peat, from swamps, one- 

 quarter part from the barn yard and reservoir, and the remain- 

 der from the road-side and night-soil. I have applied my 

 manure as follows, viz. : in April top dressed my mowing with 

 78 ox cart loads, and on 3| acres of corn land, spread and 

 ploughed in 160 loads ; also put on my oat and barley ground, 

 60 loads, and ploughed it in before sowing, and 5 loads on my 

 turnip ground. 



Last November I hired a man by the year, for $120, and in 

 hay time I hired a second hand, for 19 days, at the rate of $15 



