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sixty feet of shed and two hundred and ninety rods of stone 

 wall, and planted out over eight hundred fruit trees. When I 

 hegan on the farm, I found it well stocked with rocks and 

 brush. My method of making mowing land out of rough 

 upland pasture, has been, after cutting the brush and digging 

 out some of the rocks, to plough it first with a large Dutch 

 plough and six oxen. Wet land I have drained, carted on loam 

 and compost, and seeded to grass. 



Estimated amount of English hay cut on the farm the first 

 year of my occupancy, - - - - 3| tons. 



Estimated amount the present year, - - - 14 " 



Sales from the dairy in one year, over and above what was 

 used in the family, including milk, butter and veal, $212 75 



Labor hired on the farm in 1850, - - - 30 50 



" " " " for 1851 to Sept. 1st, - 49 50 



My stock of cattle have been kept in the barn, the present 

 summer, about twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and the 

 compost in the barn cellar is made of droppings from the cattle, 

 loam and leaves, about equal parts. The compost on the bor- 

 der of the corn-fields is made of about one-half loam and the 

 remainder stable manure and meadow mud, and has been about 

 one year collecting. The other heaps of compost on the farm 

 are made of loam, meadow mud. ashes, lime, plaster and 

 weeds. I use forest leaves as litter and in making compost 

 manure. I think we should make all our compost from our 

 lands and stable. 



REMARKS. 



1st. My object has been improvement of my farm, rather 

 than to obtain immediate profit from it. 



2d. The six years that I have owned the farm, is the first 

 of my farming. 



3d. I never had one dollar given to me. I am not in debt 

 one dollar, and when I have been in debt, I have always paid 

 one hundred cents on a dollar. 



4th. When I hear a farmer call farming a poor business, 1 

 guess he had his farm given him. 



September, 1851. 



