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acre, and to apply a handful of ashes, in the hill, at planting. 

 We hoe four times, and usually seed the land with clover, red- 

 top, and timothy, for the next year's mowing. 



"We have put compost manure for broomcorn, in the hills, at 

 the rate of sixteen loads to the acre, until the jDresent year; 

 when we have applied it, as on our Indian corn land, at the 

 rate of twelve loads to the acre. AVe added half a spoonful 

 of super-phospate of lime and plaster in the hill. We planted 

 our broomcorn with Woodward's corn-planter, and we have 

 never known our land so well and uniformly stocked, as the 

 present year. 



We prefer, for a wheat field, to turn over a rich and warm 

 clover sward. Oats we have nearly done raising. We plough 

 from six to nine inches deep, and loosen the soil a little deeper 

 each succeeding year. We usually make about three hundred 

 and fifty loads of manure every season. 



During the present season, our farm has been divided, as fol- 

 lows : twenty-seven acres in mowing ; ten in Indian corn ; four- 

 teen in broomcorn ; five in rye ; two in wheat ; one in oats ; 

 one in carrots and sowed corn ,• thirteen in pasture. 



The following table correctly exhibits the products, expen- 

 ditures and net profit of our farm, the present year : — 



of corn, at 92 cents, . 



of broomcorn, at 5i cents, 



of broomcorn seed, at 40c 

 wheat, at $1.50, . 

 rye, at 87|- cents, . 

 oats, at 50 cents, . 

 potatoes, at 40 cents, 

 carrots, at 33^ cents, 

 turnips, at 25 cents, 



hay, at $12, 



corn-fodder, at;$6, 



wheat and oat straw, at $6 



rye straw, at $5, 



of butter, at 16|- cents, 



$533 60 



654 50 



392 00 



78 00 



100 05 



22 50 



20 00 



16 66 

 4 00 



480 00 



138 00 



15 00 



17 50 

 104 00 



