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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 1 



Fuel 1^ cords per month, eawing, &c., 



18 cords, 100 00 



Labor one man and one boy, wages and 



board, 250 00 



Yearly value bestowed on Piggery, Dr. ^3147 60 



Or. by Pork and Pigs sold. 

 142 hogs at 280 lbs. 39, 760 



lbs at Gets. $2385 60 



24 pigs, one by each sow, at 

 each farrow, over and 

 above 9 suckled, $1, 24 00 



2409 60 



$737 90 

 Showing a difference lost by using the food in 

 the piggery, instead of marketing it, provided the 

 corn and vegetables are valued at a price at which 

 Ihey could be marketed free of expense, aud also 

 return manure enough to keep up the fertility of 

 the soil, which I presume might be done near this 

 city, if not near Boston. 



And if this is practicable near Boston would not 

 the sale of vegetables and purchase of manure be 

 attended with less care than the piggery, and be 

 more eertain? And at what price is the manure of 

 stables to be had at Boston, say per load, of given 

 cubic feet, when unrotted 1 And do your owners 

 of market farms, who have been successful and 

 long established, buy manure, and at what rate ? 

 An elucidation of my attempt to estimate your ope- 

 rations, will give me the marketable value of your 

 vegetables at home and in Boston, as well as an 

 ideaof the expense of converting them into money 

 by direct sale, all which will be very acceptable 

 and useful to me personally, if you can find time 

 eonveniently to lurnish it. 



Estimate of Land and Labor required for the Pig- 

 gery, 8fc. 8rc. 



For 2,310 bushels corn for piggery, at 40 



bushels per acre, 68 acres. 



For 6,000 bushels vegetables, 600 bush- 

 els per acre, 14 acres. 



Acres for piggery, 72 



For the farm purpose to support 2 horses 



and 2 oxen, say grain and grass, 16 acres. 



Pasturing, orchards, lota, &c. 12 acres. 



Acres, 



100 



Labor required to cultivate 100 acres as 

 above, say 2 hands, 12 months wages 

 and board, $300 00 



For additional labor, spring, summer and 

 fall, suppose to be equal to the expense 

 of 6 hands for six months, or 3 for a 



year. 



Annual labor, say 



450 00 



$750 00 



A farm of 100 acres of first rate cha- 

 racter might be worth $100 per acre, $10,000 00 

 And the increase of value, attributable to aug- 

 menting population, would be more than equiva- 

 lent to the wear and tear of utensils and stock em- 

 ployed. 



The interest might therefore be consider- 

 ed as rent, $600 00 



Add for taxes. 



And for labor as above, 



25 00 



750 00 



$1375 00 

 Then the farmer for his lime may be 

 considered as earning on a permanent 

 scale, over and above interest, on hia 

 capital, by his piggery, for his own 

 support, provided the manure keeps 

 up the fertility of his soil, about 1034 60 



$2409 60 



Brookline, Dec. 24ih, 1835. 

 Dear Sir — I received your favor of the 21st 

 ult., a long time after its date, and not until it was 

 much worn and chafed with its travels ere it 

 reached me. I will endeavor to answer your in- 

 quiries in detail. The following is a "summary 

 view of the total quantity of each kind of food 

 used in my piggery per annum," and the months 

 in which they are used; beginning with thelst of 

 July, which is about the time 1 begin to depend 

 upon summer vegetables, viz: 



bush. 

 July and August — Mangel wurtzel, roots, 

 and tops being the thinnings from two 

 squares each, containing 32 rods, - 800 

 Summer squashes - - _ . 200 

 Early cabbages _ . . _ IQO 



September, October and November — 



Winter squashes or pumpkins - - 700 

 Large drum head cabbages - - 800 

 Trimmings of mangel wurtzel turnips, 



&c. &c. 150 



December, January, /February, March, 



April — Mangel wurtzel,* (roots) - 200 



Carrots 900 



Ruta baga, ----- 200 

 Cabbages - - - - - 1500 



3Iay — Parsnips which are left in the ground 

 during the winter, and allowed to grow 

 in the spring, until iheir tops are from 4 

 to 6 inches high, when they are daily 

 dug as wanted, and all boiled - - 500 

 June — Potatoes, ----- 250 

 Early lettuce, peas, chopped up vines 

 and pods when the peas are full grown, 

 though still green - - - - 250 



Bushels, 



6550 



We always mix the vegetables by boiling some 

 of either kind in each kettle. 



My farming, or rather gardening, goes upon 

 the principle of cultivating but little ground, and 

 by great attention to get large crops, and in some 

 instances two from the same land. The form of 

 one piece constantly in cultivation is an oblong, 

 thus divided with an alley or walk 4 feet wide in 

 the centre. 



No. 1. Of the upper side was sowed this 

 year with mangel wurtzel, thinned out several 

 times as described in a former letter, and finally 

 cabbage plants set out two feel apart, (for winter 

 crop,) taken from square No. 3, of the lower side. 



No. 2. Has now a crop of parsnips left to 

 grow the next spring, to furnish food for the month 



♦ Cabbages and mangel wurtzel used first. 



