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of eighteen inches it passes oflFby a waste pipe. With a tackle and a 

 pair of hooks his cans are lowered in this well, and are cooled. It 

 takes only fifteen minutes to cool a can. By this excellent plan, he 

 is able to milk his cows in the evening, to let them and his men have 

 their natural rest, and send fresh cool milk to the market in the mor- 

 ning. 



Swine. — Cross of the Berkshire and unknown breeds. They are a 

 splendid lot of pigs, showing the value of a good breed from the fact 

 that they have kept fat upon the run of the farm, without any extra 

 care, or feed. 



Sheep. — He has only five ; they are the Leicester breed, and took 

 the first premium at the late Show. Their fleeces averaged nine lbs. 

 each first clip. 



Poultry. — Mrs. Bell has been very successful in raising poultry. 

 Beside common barn-yard fowls, she has a fine flock of geese, and also 

 seventy-five turkeys, which she raised from three hens. She feeds 

 the young turkeys on milk curd and Indian meal. 



Potatoes. — His principal crop for profit is potatoes ; he manures 

 his ground with sixty cart loads of manure to the acre, spreads his 

 manure broadcast, plows his ground, and plants in hills. Seven acres 

 yielded fifteen hundred and thirty-two bushels, this year, of early po- 

 tatoes. He thinks he can obtain more merchantable potatoes from 

 hills, but a greater quantity from drills. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



MARTIN ELLSWORTH, Ch'n. 



Jfew-Yorkj October 23rf, 1844. 



REPORT ON S. B.TOWNSEND'S FIELD OF WHEAT. 



The committee on field crops report that they visited, at the request 

 of S. B. Townsend, Esq., of Newtown, L. I., in June last, a field of 

 wheat containing two acres. 



The soil is of a mellow, sandy loam, and had, previously to being 

 sown, been plowed and harrowed in the usual manner, and manured 

 with sixty bushels of poudrette to the acre. 



The field had been very uniformly sown and cross sown with white 

 flint wheat, at the rate of two bushels to the acre, which cost, at the 

 time of sowing, twenty shillings per bushel. The yield was thirty - 

 five bushels of wheat of sixty pounds, or twenty-one hundred pounds 

 to the acre, and was very liberally disposed of by Mr. Townsend to 

 his neighbors, at the rate of ten shillings per bushel. 



The kernel had been slightly attacked by a small fly, at the time 

 your committee visited the field j but the grain had advanced so far 

 that it appeared to suff'er little or no injury -, they therefore recom- 

 mend early sowing—say as early as the 10th of September. 



This field of wheat was remarkably clear from weeds, and from its 



