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peat mud, after drying a week or ten days, will answer the 

 same purpose;) I make a windrow of these materials, by the 

 side of the hard land, and set it on fire ; then plough the turf 

 on the upland, and cover this windrow with turf and loam, simi- 

 lar to a coalpit. It will then burn four or five weeks. I then, after 

 a rain, mix the whole together, which makes a good and cheap 

 manure for top-dressing, or to put in the hill the next season. 

 The mud which I take from the ditches, more than I want for 

 my yards, after lying over winter, I level and plant with pota- 

 toes, and the next year mix it with horse manure and loam, 

 plough and mix it in the summer, and, in the fall, take it for a top- 

 dressing on the same land from which it is dug, and find it to 

 answer a good purpose, and save the expense of carting. 



The following is the substance of my memorandum, as I keep 

 it yearly, showing the amount of sales from the farm. Also 

 the income of my cows, and the loss or gain of buying and selling, 

 as the case may be, commencing the first of October, each year : 



Oct. 1, 1846, six cows on hand valued at - - $ 120 00 

 Bought in Oct. and Nov. nine cows and heifers at - 139 00 

 Cash paid for labor in 1846, - 70 00 



$329 00 

 The following is the amount of produce sold in 1846. Also 

 the profits on cows from Oct. 1st, 1846, to Sept. 8th, 1847 : 



Three cows sold for ----- - 



Corn, oats, and potatoes sold, - 



Twenty-six calves sold, deducting first cost, 



Milk sold, 



Eight cows let for one year, - 



One cow let for time of feed, _.-_.- 



Apples and other fruit, - 



Hay and rowen sold, "'•","'"" 



Twelve cows on hand, valued at - 



$513 91 



Marlborough, Sept. 14, 1847. 



