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comparing with other years, at nearly the value of one cow, as wc 

 had but four tlirough the winter, when we usually made about 

 two-tliirds of the yearly quantity of our milk, the injury referred 

 to reducing tlic quantity this summer and fall. Our practice is 

 to give each of our cows, at milking time, two quarts of shorts or 

 cob-meal, through the year. Having but a small lot for pastur- 

 ing, they require something more to keep them along, and we 

 think that it pays well in the additional quantity of milk, and 

 tlie better condition of the stock. 



We profess to know but little of the science of farming, and 

 consequently can practice but little ; but diligence and economy 

 we have been obliged to practice, to bring about what little we 

 have. Most of the labor on our farm, since we commenced, 

 has been done by ourselves, besides doing considerable for 

 our neighbors with teams and otherwise. This is the first 

 season that we have hired a man through the summer and 

 fall. But our work for others has more than paid for our hired 

 help. 



For a few years we have been trying to go a little into vege- 

 table culture, but as most of our manure has to be carted from 

 tlie city seven miles, and our produce carried there to sell, it 

 makes slovr work and small profit in comparison with that which 

 is carried on nearer the city and on a larger scale. "We have 

 not gone as largely into it as many do, or as we might, by buy- 

 ing more manure and hiring more help, being content to do 

 what we can in a small, snug way, within ourselves. 



Our receipts and expenditures, for the present year, are as 

 follows. 



Receipts : — 

 For milk sold, 



inilk used in two families, . 



beef and pork, . 



Pigs sold, .... 



poultry and eggs, 



vegetables, 



liay, 



labor of ourselves and team, 



$1,695 67 



