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ent season, but owing to the wet weather, I have not yet sowed it to 

 grass. One other acre I have ploughed, smoothed and raised upon 

 it the following crops, viz : one hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes 

 and sowed with grass-seed in the fall ; the first year it yielded twen- 

 ty-one hundred of herds-grass and red-top, the second, twenty-five 

 hundred. In the fall of the last named year, I hauled on the land 

 about twenty loads of loam, and spread it ; the third year I had from 

 it thirty-two hundred, and this year twenty-eight hundred. Upon 

 another acre and a quarter, I cut all the surface over with a hassock 

 knife, let the turf dry, piled and burned it, and spread the ashes, be- 

 sides hauling thirty loads of loam, and spreading it upon the same. 

 Last year it yielded thirty-five hundred, and this year about forty 

 hundred, mostly of blue-grass hay. 



My stock at the present time consists of four oxen, five cows and 

 a bull, one horse and one three year old colt. I raise about thirty-four 

 tons of hay, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty bushels of corn 

 yearly, besides from fifty to one hundred bushels of oats, and some 

 rye. Also, two hundred to three hundred and fifty bushels of po- 

 tatoes. 



My orchard contains one hundred and sixty-five trees, but they are 

 not all in bearing. (There are three hundred and twenty on my 

 farm.) The quantity of apples raised since I have been on my farm 

 is as follows : 



All of which I have sold, except what were needed for family use, 

 at a price varying from seventy-five cents to two dollars and a half 

 per barrel. I trim my trees every year. I pastured my orchard 

 with sheep, until three years since, when I ploughed it. The second 

 and third years after coming to the place I scraped and whiftwashed 

 the trees, and did the same this year. 



I make about one hundred and twenty loads of manure annually. 



