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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



18. I make my manure Irom loam, peat mud 

 and litter put into the hog sties and barn-yard. 

 Part ol' my hog etiea are siiuaied under my barn, 

 BO that all the manure Irora the cattle and horses 

 in the large barn is dropped into ihem. When 

 taken Irom the sties it is mixed up with loam and 

 peat mud in heaps, where it remains until wanted 

 lor use. 



16. I keep 7 yoke of oxen, 13 cows, 4 young 

 cattle, 4 horses, and no sheep. 1 winter 33 head 

 of cattle, but in the summer part of them are sent 

 into the country to pasture. 



I have 4 barns ; one 30 feet square, one 30 by 

 40 teet, one 30 by 70 leei, and one 40 by 80 leet, 

 with a cellar under the whole ol it. In this cellar 

 are part of my pig sties and manure, which of 

 course is covered. 



20. My cows are mostly native, though some 

 are a mixed breed. 



21. I am not in the habit of raising calves. 



22. I have made 600 lbs. of butter. From 

 the first of November to the first of June I sell 

 my milk. I make no cheese. 



23. 1 keep no sheep. 



24. I keep from 50 to 75 swine. I raise pigs 

 to sell. 1 fatten about one ion of pork. My 

 ewine are nearly all a cross of the JBerkshiie and 

 Mackey. I have one breeding sow of this breed, 

 7 years old, which has raised 111 pigs in 11 litters 

 and is now just ready to pig again. One lull 

 blooded Mackey 4 years old, which has raised 8 

 litters of Irom 8 to 10 av a litter. My swine were 

 originally obtained from E. Phinney, esq., of 

 Lexington. I am now about erecting a piggery 

 with boilers set, &c. 



25. During the summer months, I feed my 

 ewine upon weeds, which are freely thrown into 

 the pens, slop Irora the kitchen, skimmed milk, 

 (particularly for the pigs,) boiled potatoes, apples, 

 pumpkins, carruts and Indian meal, all boiled to- 

 gether, 1 use the same kind of lood to liiiten ihem, 

 with the exception that it is thicker and contains 

 a greater proportion of meal. 1 occasionally, 

 particularly when I wish to have them root and 

 work over the manure in their pens, throw ihem 

 a few ears of corn. 



26. FrotH all my hog sties I take not less than 

 700 cart-loads of manure per year, part of which 

 of course comes from the cattle and horses. The 

 quantity of manure made on ihe place during the 

 past year, was not less than 1200 cart-loads. 



27. 1 employ sometimes only two and some- 

 times eight hands on my larm. I have paid du- 

 ring the past year ^750 lor labor, but it was not 

 all confined to farming — $200 should be deducted 

 for other work. 



28. I have 150 young engrafted apple trees and 

 50 old ones partly engrafted, mostly with winter 

 fruit. Some of my apples I boil up for the hogs. 



29. I have 10 pear trees 6 quince, 6 cherry, 6 

 crab apple, 8 plum, 10 peach and 1000 young trees 

 of various sorts in a nursery. 



30. My trees for several years have not been 

 troubled by canker worms, and not at all by 

 borers. 



31. I do not allow the use of ardent spirits on 

 my farm, nor do I intend to hereafter, although I 

 did last summer till the latter part of August. 



The above statement is as accurate as I can 

 make it, and I think it nearly correct. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 

 Oct. 26, 1840. Abel Moore. 



fVm. Salisbury'' s statement. 



1. My farm consists of 130 acres, exclusive of 

 woodland, and embraces loam, clay and some 

 peat, or, as we call it, meadow. 



To reclaim my meadow lands, I find it neces- 

 sary to drain them, and invert the sod by the 

 plough or some other implement, in such a man- 

 ner as to completely kill out all the wild grass : 

 when that is accomplished, I carry on a compost 

 made of as fine loam as I can obtain — say Irom 

 12 to 25 loads to ihe acre. My meadows are 

 generally so solt belore 1 get them brought into 

 grass, that I cannot goon to them with a team 

 except there is Irost in the ground. 1 therefore 

 prepare my compost in summer or tall, and heap it 

 up pretty well, no that 1 can lake it when the 

 meadow is eutficiently frozen, and carry and 

 spread it on the meadow ; and when the frost 

 gels out 2 or 3 inches, I go on wiih a good pair 

 ui' horses and sharp harrow, and harrow till 1 

 make the surface as smooth as 1 can get it. 1 

 then sow on oats or some other grain, and give 

 another harrowing. 1 then sow on about one 

 peck of herds-grass, half a bushel of red lop, 

 and as I commonly raise my own clover seed and 

 sow it in ihe chatl, 1 do not know how much seed 

 1 put on ; do not think we often hurt land by 

 sowing clover seed on it. My upland f prefer to 

 stock down in the fall, as 1 can then turn the 

 stubble under, which 1 think is of service to the 

 ground : I sowed two pieces on my meadow last 

 spring ; the one I harrowed after sowing ihe grass 

 seed — the other 1 did not ; and the piece that 

 was not harrowed took the best. 1 sow southern 

 clover seed on my land in the spring; the next 

 season it will be ready to cut early, which 1 do, 

 and lay it up lor my milch cows. The second 

 crop will usually start up very soon, and with 

 me, as it will commonly fill with seed, I let as 

 much of this crop stand till it gets ripe, as I think 

 1 shall want to sow the next spring. I do not 

 think it good policy to sow clover seed in the lall 

 as the frost would probably kill it out. On the 

 lands 1 laid down this fall, I intend to sow clover 

 chati' next spring. After cutting clover intended 

 lor setd, 1 let it lay on the ground about a week, 

 to take ihe dews and rains, which will render it 

 much more easily thrashed. I have been thus 

 pariicular, thinking that the method of saving 

 clover seed might not be understood by all my 

 brother farmers in this section of the country. 



I have tilled this season about 18 acres ; I usu- 

 ally put on about 20 loads of manure to the acre, 

 where I spread it, which I generally prefer to do. 

 I usually mix meadow mud with all my stable 

 manure: my siraw manure I usually cover up in 

 potato hills. I have usually, carted my manure 

 on to my grass land that 1 intended to plant to 

 corn, and as I plough my land with what is com- 

 monly called a side-hill plough, and turn the fur- 

 rows all one vvay, I have but one row of heaps 

 spread at a time, prelerring to cover it before it 

 dries. The laud that I intend to plant to potatoes 

 I plough before I cart the manure on ; then spread 

 and harrow well, and cover the manure nearly 

 all up when I plant. 



There was so much said last year by a gentle- 

 man at the south, about its being the best way to 

 put the manure on the top of the land, wliich has 

 always been contrary to my theory, that I this 



