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trampled by the cattle. Embankments around the lower sides of 

 the yard, prevent the water from running off' and confine it in 

 water tight pools, which are fdled with straw to absorb the water, 

 except so much of it as is wanted to put on the garden. 



8. I make from four to five hundred loads of manure annually, 

 and it is aU applied. 



9. Most of the manure is put on corn ground. It is drawn on 

 about one-half rotted, and spread over the surface, and plowed 

 under about lour inches deep. The reason I do not plow it under 

 deeper is, that I suppose I must plow deeper the next time to 

 bring up the earth into which the manure has been carried by the 

 rains. 



10. I have never used lime in any quantity, excepting in the 

 form of a sulphate as a manure, believing that there is enough in 

 the soil. Sulphate of lime, I use in large quantities; fourteen 

 tons this year. It is sown on all the wheat, corn, barley and oats, 

 and on the pastures and meadows in quantities varying from one 

 to three bushels to the acre. All the ashes made by my fires are 

 used as a manure, and I think that it is worth as much as the 

 same bulk of sulphate of lime to use on the corn. Sulphate of 

 lime has been used on the farm lor many years, and in large quan- 

 tities, and I think it essential in my system of farming. I have 

 not used salt or guano as manure. 



I raised this ^'feer about 

 77 acres wheat yielding 1,616 bushels, averaging per acre, 20.99 

 15.^ « corn, " 821 " 52.96 



18 " barley, " 665 " 36.94 



38 " oats, " 2,249 , " 56.55 



2^ " potatoes, " ' 292 « 116.80 



5,643 

 50 acres of pasture and 30 of meadow, 



12. I sow at the rate of two bushels to the acre, about the fif- 

 teenth day of September. I summer fallow but little, and only to 

 kill foul stuff, and to bring the land into a good state of cultiva- 

 tion. A part of my wheat is sown on land that has been pas- 

 tured, or mowed, plowing it but once, but that done with great 

 care, and as deep as I can. The oat and barley stubble, as a gen- 

 eral rule is sown to wheat, plowing only once, having previously 

 fed off the stublde with sheep so close as to have most of the scat- 

 tered giain picked up. The plowing is done as near the time of 

 sowing the wheat as is practicable, and the wheat is sown upon 

 the fresh furrows, and harrowed in. I have tried various modes 

 of treating stubble, b<it none of them has answered as well as this. 

 What little grain of the spring crop is left on the ground is turned 

 deep u)ider, and the wheat being on top, gets the start of it. The 



