THE FARMERS-REGISTER. 



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year caused three loads to be spread upon the top 

 of the lafld and well harrowed in, and three loada 

 ploughed under as usual, and siaked the land oui 

 (equal quaniiiies) and planted it to corn; the 

 result this year is in lavor of turning the manure 

 *inder ; but it remains to see which piece will pro- 

 duce the most grass and hold out longest ; which 

 it will take several years lo determine. 



I mow about 25 acres ol' upland. 1 think I cut 

 (ronj I to 1 1-2 tons per acre. 1 have no laml that 

 ■I can irrigate, except some low meadow, wiiich I 

 tiow by means ol dams that I cause to be made 

 by ditching and laying the sods and mud above 

 ^l)e dilch. I put down my gates in the lall t»elore 

 the swamps get lull, and keep iheni down till 

 April. The last year was the first ol my experi- 

 ment in this way. I therefore cannot so well tell 

 what the result may be, but I think it will be la- 

 vorable, as there appears lo be considerable 

 sediment settle. 1 do not manure the land ihai 

 1 irriiraie. I put compost manure on meadow 

 Jand thai has been reclaimed, say I'rom 12 to 20 

 loads per acre. 1 mow about 20 or 25 acres ot 

 low land that is not suitable lor the plough; on 

 thai part which I have properly reclaimed I cut 

 (rom 2 to 3 tons per acre oC a good quality ; on 

 about 10 acres thai I have not iniproved, I should 

 think that I did not cut more than half a ton per 

 acre; and that not worth halt" as much per ton 

 as that which grewon the reclaimed meadow. (My 

 method ol reclaiming low bog is given in the 

 previous part of my statement.) 

 I have planted 3 1-2 acres ol' corn this season. 

 • Some part of the ground was prepared by spread- 

 ing manure on the grass and turning it under; on 

 about one acre of which we also put a small quan- 

 tity into the hill ; on some we ploughed the land 

 and spread manure on the top and harrowed it 

 well. When I plough the manure under, I put 

 about a gill of ashes round the corn alter it is up : 

 on the two pieces where 1 planted tor experiment, 

 I put ashes equally alike on both parl-s. I plant 

 my corn without soaking. From 3 1-2 acres of 

 corn we husked 300 bushels of ears, which we 

 think will yield 150 bushels of shelled corn. The 

 principal part ol my corn this year was planted 

 on low moist land. On one fourth of an acre of 

 good corn land containing 680 hills, we spread 8 

 loads of stable manure and ploughed it in, and 

 put about 3 loads in the hill : the corn was planted 

 near the house and the fowls injured it some, but 

 we husked 1368 pounds in the ear, which would 

 be but a Iraction short of 19 bushels, allowing 75 

 pounds to the bushel, on about one quarter of an 

 acre. 



We planted about 4 acres with potatoes, they 

 are not all dug, and ot course 1 am not able to 

 state how much they will yied to the acre. My 

 banner of planting I have heretofore in this re- 

 port stated : 1 plant calico, orange, pink-eyes, 

 lady-fingers, blues and long reds. 



I planted this season to ruta baga, English tur- 

 nips, cabbages and carrots, abonl 1 1-2 acre : 

 they are not all gathered yet — ol course 1 am not 

 able to say how many bushels I shall have. I 

 do not think I have made it profitable to raise 

 turnips this year: my carrots look belter, i also 

 sowed nearly an acre of corn lor the purpose of 

 feeding to cows when the pasture grew short : 

 I this year found it very convenient. I expect 

 also to feed out ray turnips and carrots principally 

 to my milch cows. 



I sowed about 14 acres of ground this Beason. 

 I sowed rye, peas, rye and oats mixed together 

 lor filed for hoga ; rye and oais also, and barley. 

 The peas, rye and oats sowed very early : rye I 

 also sowed the first part of April ; the barley I 

 did not sow till some time in May : I sowed about 

 one bushel of rye to the acre ; about two of peas, 

 rye, and oais, and about two and a liall of barley. 

 I last lall ploughed up about 2 1-2 acres of grass 

 land, thai was too wet to hoe; I rolled the land 

 clown, and in the winter and s[)ring I carried on 

 from 15 to 20 loads of compost made by my hogs 

 and spread it, and sowed on about two bushels 

 per acre of peat, rye and oats mixed together, and 

 harrowed it in and sowed on my grass seed, and 

 it now bids lair to produce a crop of good hay 

 another year: the land that F sowed my rye on 

 I did not plough in the spring, as I did not wish 

 to disturb the sod that was turned under last year ; 

 I went over it with the cultivator. The land 

 that 1 sowed barley on I ploughed this spring. 

 Did not raise wheat this year. 



I have laid down 14 acres to grass this season, 

 on 8 of which 1 sowed the grass seed in the spring 

 at the time ol sowing the grain, and on 6 acres I 

 sowed it by itself this fall about tlie first week in 

 September, (quantity of seed stated before.) 



My means for making manure are meadow 

 mud, loam from the road side, leaves, &c. Me- 

 thod of making manure : first my barns stand a 

 little elevated ; the yards form a gentle declivity. 

 I have ploughed and taken out the earth near the 

 lower side, also raised the lower part so that the 

 hole would probably contain about 20 loads of 

 muck or loam ; I fill that with meadow mud or 

 loam, as best suits my convenience ; when laken 

 out, which I do about twice a year, if filled wvh 

 mud, carry it on to upland ; if with loam, carry it on 

 lo the meadow. Below the yard 1 have excavated 

 anotherhole, which 1 fill also; and when there is 

 enough water to run out ol the yard, I conduct it 

 with spouts over any part ol the place that I wish. 

 I used to be in the hi hi; of cleaning up my yard 

 every morning and pulling the droppings (rom the 

 cows into a pile and throwing mud or loam over 

 them ; but have for two years past adopted adifier- 

 enl method, which 1 think augments my manure 

 very much ; every morning, Sunday excepted, I 

 throw about two shovelluls of mud or loam over 

 every dropping of a cow, and by this means I not 

 only save the droppings, but also a great part of the 

 urine. I havealso dug under my stables and carried 

 the dirt on to my meadow, and now fill under them 

 with meadow mud ; also lay as much mud as is 

 convenient under t e barn windows where I throw 

 out my manure. 1 have also dug into the side- 

 hill and placed my hog pen in such a way that 

 my hogs lie almost underground: have dug the 

 yard down so as to make it level ; laid a bank 

 wall 6 or 8 leet hi<rh on the north side of my 

 yard, and made a road round so that I can drive 

 and tip as many loads of any thing that I wish 

 into the yard as I please; I do not, however, 

 at this season of the year put more than one or 

 two into the satne yard at a time. I also deposile 

 hack of the hog yanls large quanlitips of mud, 

 and as soon as ii begins to thaw in the spring I 

 begin lo shovel into my hog yard and cover up 

 the droppings of my hocjs. I have also dug a 

 hole a short distance from my house that will con- 

 tain 12 or 16 loads ©f meadow imiik. and with 



