48 MASS4iCHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Marrow and Hubbard squashes, . . 1^ acres. 

 • Miscellaneous vegetables, . . . 1-^- " 



Most of my turnips have been raised as a second crop. 



Included under the enumeration of English grass land is one 

 acre laid down this year with wheat, and one acre with barley. 



The live stock consists of five horses, thirty-two cows, one 

 bull, one yoke of oxen, and from six to ten swine. With milch 

 cows I have not been particular in regard to purity of blood, 

 but have endeavored to obtain and keep the best grade and 

 native stock. 



Have generally found it most expedient to keep good, fair- 

 sized horses, weighing from eleven to twelve hundred. The 

 amount of manure used annually upon the farm has ordinarily 

 been about one hundred and fifty cords. This has included 

 that made by the live stock and considerable night manure 

 hauled from the city, all composted with meadow-mud from the 

 salt marsh. 



It may not be improper to mention, that my experience in 

 the matter of top-dressing, has led me to use, contrary to the 

 general practice, green cow-manure for this purpose. 



To obviate the objection that such manure is apt to be so 

 coarse as to be in the way of the scythe and rake, I have found 

 it well to spread it in the month of March, and then, after the 

 frost is fairly out of the ground, run over it with a brush har- 

 row, which reduces it into such small particles as to render it 

 in no way troublesome afterwards. I have generally drawn 

 from the city thirty or forty cords of night-manure. This 

 I have mixed with the meadow mud and barnyard manure, 

 all in one mass, in about equal portions of each, and forked 

 it over twice at least, and in some years three times. 



As to rotation of crops, I would say that I have found it inex- 

 pedient to attempt to raise either cabbages, beets, or turnips, 

 successive years upon the same piece of land. But as to most 

 other farm products, I have never been convinced that there 

 was any necessity for alternating the crops — as, for instance, 

 onions and carrots do not only as well, but much better when 

 coiitinued successively on the same land. Potatoes do well for 

 four or five years, and, for aught I know, for a much longer 



