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Keep 4 or 5 hogs, and sell about 20 pigs, profits about $100 00 

 Raise about 1000 pumpkins, worth about - 20 00 



613 00 



Hired labor besides my own, - - - 150 00 



Eastham, Nov. 3, 1847. 



$463 00 



Braley Jenkins JrSs Statement. 



Up to the year 1S37-8, we had kept two cows, a pig, and 

 one or two cosset sheep. The produce of the field and garden 

 was, of corn about 30 bushels, potatoes 20 bushels, with garden 

 vegetables enough for culinary purposes. There had been no 

 more manure made, than what naturally accumulated; the prod- 

 uce of hay was about 1| tons, and of course we had to buy 

 some hay. At this time Ave added a horse to the stock, and 

 commenced carting, to the pig-yard, soil from the road-side ; 

 from that time to this, we have yearly increased our exertions, 

 so that the last year, we carted out of the yard, and compost- 

 heap, 220 loads of manure, of 20 bushels each. We have not 

 the facilities for making manure that most farmers in this vicinity 

 have ; we have to depend almost entirely on peat (which has to be 

 carted one mile) and soil from the road-side, composted in our 

 yards, with the excrements of the cattle. 



In 1840, Ave purchased land adjoining, 3| acres, which had 

 served as pasture for one cow, and land across the road, 20 acres, 

 which had been exhausted by cropping, and thrown out to 

 common, light sandy soil. This was fenced in for sheep. The 

 manner of cultivating was formerly to plant with corn, followed 

 with rye, and the land left to recover itself and get grassed over 

 at its leisure, The system we have practised, since improve- 

 ment began, has been to cultivate less land, to manure more 

 highly, and lay down to grass in the following order ; corn, 

 then green or root crops, then spring grain with grass-seed. 

 The farm has increased steadily in its produce, up to the present 



