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about twelve acres being covered with wood, and the remainder, 

 an old worn-out pasture, partially grown up to white birches, 

 shrub pines and blueberry bushes. The other six-acre lot was 

 purchased in 1S41, then in grass, and producing about one ton 

 to the acre of hay of a poor quality, — it being low wet ground. 

 The soil on about one half the farm is a light sandy loam, with 

 a sandy sub-soil ; the other half is of a sandy loam, somewhat 

 stony, and on a hard stony sub-soil. I have this year in grass 

 twenty-one acres, from which I have kept five cows from the 

 first of June, by soiling, and cut about thirty-two tons of hay. 

 I shall have three tons of dried corn-fodder, raised after a crop 

 of hay, a quantity of turnips, and after-grass enough to keep my 

 cows till foddering-time in the fall. I have four and a half acres 

 of corn, the product of which I estimate at three hundred 

 bushels, and a large quantity of fodder, it being a very large 

 growth ; — three acres of winter rye, from which are threshed 

 and measured seventy-six bushels; — one and a half acre of 

 potatoes, producing two hundred and fifty bushels ; — two 

 acres in carrots and other vegetables, from which I have sold 

 twenty-eight dollars worth of green peas, and calculate to have 

 four hundred bushels of carrots ; about twenty dollars worth of 

 garden vegetables, (besides a supply for the family,) and a quan- 

 tity of turnips after peas ; also three bushels of dry peas. The 

 other acre is taken up with buildings, yards and roads. I can 

 keep next winter (with the help of corn -fodder and roots) ten 

 cows and three horses, and sell fifteen tons of hay. In the years 

 1844 and '45, I kept nine cows, three horses, and four, a part of 

 the time. Last winter I kept five cows and four horses, and 

 sold one hundred and thirty dollars worth of hay. 



I plough my dry mowing ground up once in three to six years, 

 manure well, hoe one or two years, and stock down again with 

 rye or oats in the spring, or sometimes in August, after turning 

 in the stubble. My low mowing ground I top-dress once in 

 about three years, and sometimes plough and stock down in 

 August, with a dressing of fine manure on the inverted soil. My 

 tillage ground I plough ten inches deep, and sometimes deeper, 

 in the fall, manure in the spring at the rate of about forty loads 

 to the acre, spread and ploughed in. 



