40 ON FARMS. 



JONAS HOLT'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Farms : 



Gentlemen, — During the last five years, I have subdued ten 

 acres of rough bush pasture, which is very stony. I have built fifty 

 rods of good stone wall, and have set one hundred and fifty trees 

 this year, and have also ploughed five acres of my pasture, three of 

 which I have sown with rye ; the cost of which was as follows : 

 Ploughing three and a half days, myself, oxen and boy ; 



My own work, at $1 00 per day. 



Oxen, 1 00 " 



Plough, 50 " 



Boy, 50 « 



Four bushels of rye, at 90 cents per bushel, 



Sowing and harrowing, 



Making the whole expense, $18 10 



This is sown for early feed, and to subdue the bushes. The feed 

 will not pay more than half the expense of ploughing and sowing, 

 but bushes cannot be subdued without time, and it is better, I think, 

 to get half pay than to let the ground lie fallow. 



My crops, this year, are but partly harvested. I sowed one 

 bushel and three pecks of barley, and harvested nineteen bushels and 

 one peck from three quarters of an acre. Sowed three bushels of 

 oats; these are not all threshed. Planted eight quarts of white 

 beans ; have harvested about two thirds of them, and have six bushels. 



I have thirty-six acres in mowing and tillage. Five acres and one 

 half have been tilled this year, viz : One and one half in corn, one and 

 one half in potatoes, one acre of beans, and of corn for fodder ; one 

 do. fallow, wliich I have seeded, the first of September, with grass, 

 and half an acre of trees. 



I have made sLxty loads of compost manure, this season, in the 

 following manner: Heap No 1. Twenty loads of muck, twelve do. 

 of loam dug up by the wall, six do. of barn yard manure, two do. of 

 peat ashes. No. 2. Eight loads of muck, one cow that died, two 

 loads of ashes, and four bushels of refuse or dirty salt. No. 3. 

 Bushes and roots, with the gravel attached, burned ; five loads. No. 

 4. Loam mixed with the wash of the sink : twenty loads of this I 

 have used, and the other forty I intend to spread on the grass this 

 fall. I have also the manure in the hog and barn yards, probably 

 near fifty loads. 



