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9, How do you apply manure, composted, or not ; ploughed 

 under or on the surface, and what quantity per acre ? 

 A. Composted, and thirty loads to the acre. 



10. Do you use guano, how, and with what results ? 

 A. Do not use it. 



11. The same of plaster and lime ? 

 A. Have not used any. 



12. What course do you pursue in draining — open or under- 

 drains, use tiles, stones, or brush? 



A. Open drains. 



13. What depth do you commonly plough — do you use the 

 subsoil plough, and think it advantageous or not ? 



A. Ten or twelve inches. 



14. Have you reclaimed bog meadow, and how ? 



A. Yes, by ploughing. 



15. How much, and what live stock do you keep, and what 

 breeds ? 



A. Two oxen, ten cows, one horse, ten swine, native stock. 



16. Do you employ oxen or horses, and which do you consider 

 best? 



A. Oxen and horse. 



17. How much butter, cheese, or milk do you produce ? 

 A. Butter and cheese, nine hundred lbs., made and sold. 



18. What fruits do you raise ? 



A. Apples, peaches, pears, plums, and cherries. 



19. What do you consider the cheapest fences ? 

 A. Stone wall. 



20. Do you consider the careful cultivation of a garden essen- 

 tial on a farm ? 



A. I do. 



21. Is there profit in raising swine? 

 A. 1 think there is. 



22. What extent of orcharding have you, apple, pear, peach, 

 or plum ? 



23. What distance from each other do you set your trees ? 

 A. Thirty-three feet. 



24. Do you wash them, and if so, what with ? 

 A. Yes. 



25. Do you keep them under cultivation, and with what crops ? 



