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butter and cheese for the family's use. My cows are princi- 

 pally of the native breed ; those that calve in spring and sum- 

 mer, give on an average, four and a half quarts of milk per 

 day for the year, and those that calve in October and Novem- 

 ber, average five and a half quarts per day. Their milk is 

 increased by going from hay to grass in spring ; the others 

 diminished by going from grass to hay in the fall. 



I have raised more than thirteen hundred bushels of grain 

 this year, viz : ten and two sixteenth bushels of wheat, twelve 

 and a half bushels of barley, two hundred and fifty-two and a 

 half bushels of oats, two hundred and fifty-six and three quar- 

 ters bushels of rye, (one acre on home lot produced thirty-eight 

 and a half bushels) three hundred and thirty bushels of broom 

 seed by estimation, worth as much per bushel for cattle and 

 swhie as oats. Pomeroy corn on home lot, four hundred and 

 sixteen baskets, the average weight, forty-three pounds per 

 basket ; same kind on the island, fifty-six baskets, weight forty- 

 three pounds per basket. Whitman corn on the island, one 

 hundred and six baskets, weight forty-one pounds per basket. 

 Canada corn on the island, three hundred and eighty-four bask- 

 ets, weight forty-six and a half pounds per basket. Each kind 

 was measured in the same baskets. I shelled two baskets of the 

 Canada corn which made one bushel and five and a half quarts. 

 Allowing eighty pounds of ears for one bushel of shelled corn, 

 I shall have five hundred and thirty-one and eighteen eightieths 

 bushels, and forty-six baskets of small corn. The Canada corn 

 yielded much the best according to the treatment, and was fit 

 to harvest two weeks earlier than the other varieties. 



My broom corn was a fair crop, but was injured somewhat 

 by the frost the morning of the 25th of September. I think 

 the yield of the five and a half acres will be full three thou- 

 sand three hundred pounds of brush, and three hundred and 

 thirty bushels of seed. I raised eighteen cart loads of pump- 

 kins and squashes, mostly among my broom corn, which were 

 fed principally to my cows. I believe broom corn exhausts 

 the land less than any other hoed crop. My oats that grew on 

 land where my broom corn was raised last year, yield one-third 

 more than those where my Indian corn was raised side by side, 



