ON FARMS. 05 



J. r. lMiALL>< yTATK.MEiNT, 



To the Committee on Farms : 



Gentlemen, — Isly farm contains about 1(30 acres. Most of it 

 ■was my father's. Six years since, I came in possession of it. I 

 then kept one horse, four oxen, eight cows, and two or three young 

 cattle. 



I then cut but Uttle more hay than was consumed by my stock ; 

 since, I have added to their nuuiber, so that I now keep two horses, 

 four oxen, twenty cows, one bull, and one two year old heifer. This 

 stock is supplied by the produce of the farm, (except a part of the 

 meal and the shorts, which I purchase) : the cows yielding milk I 

 feed in part with roots, shorts, and meal. 



The labor in summer is performed by myself, three men and a boy, 

 one added during the haying, and by two hands in the winter. One 

 goes to market once or twice a day, with milk and vegetables, through 

 the year. 



This 3^ear I have planted — 3 acres in corn, to ripen, 



2 do in corn fodder, 



2 1-4 do in potatoes, 

 2 do in ve^retables. 



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My farm is divided into upland, mowing and tillage, about 38 

 acres : and of reclaimed meadow that has been mowed, 12 acres ; 

 also, three acres seeded down in August and September, the present 

 year: 17 acres still remaining uncultivated. The upland I plough 

 deep, and manure with compost, which I make chiefly from the drop- 

 pings of the cattle, horses and hogs, including the urine, with peat 

 muck. I have used stable manure and leached ashes, but do not 

 consider stable manure profitable at $4 per cord, composed, as most 

 of it is, of Utter or straw in too great proportions. 



About 90 acres is pasture, 16 acres of Avhich being covered with 

 wood. I have recently cut it off, and applied gypsum to two-thidrs 

 of it, and find it profitable. 



The past season I have pastured three of my cows off the farm. 



My manner of reclaiming swamp or meadow land is as follows : — 

 The first lot, containing about 7 acres. Mud from 2 to 8 feet deep; 

 a cold, boggy swamp, partly covered with bushes, and the rest pro- 

 ducing a little poor grass. 



