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10. Do not use guano. 



11. Use both lime and plaster with good results. 



12. 



13. Average depth seven inches, have not used the subsoil 

 plough. 



14. 



15. Native breed ; ten cattle and two horses. 



16. Use both oxen and horses ; have not decided which 

 would be best alone. 



17. Sell $500 worth of milk. 



18. Apples. 



19. Stone wall, where stones are plenty. 



20. Certainly, to raise everything for my own use, and 

 more if a market is near. 



21. There is this year; some years there is not. 



22. Between three and four acres of apple trees, if they 

 stood together. 



23. Thirty feet. 



24. Weak potash water and soap suds. 



25. Most of the time under cultivation. 



26. If the trunk is sound it is profitable to do so. 



27. I do not. * 



My help this year has been one hired man, hoeing and hay- 

 ing, $25 ; and myself and boy. Last year I paid out $40 for 

 help. My receipts this year will be, for milk, $500 ; for pork, 

 ^25] for eggs, $40; for poultry, $18; for apples, $20; for 

 cranberries, $30; for potatoes, $125; making $758. 



Abner B. Lane. 



L. H. Ilildretli's Statement. 



The farm which I now own, I bought in the spring of 1843. 

 It contains about eighty-five acres, including twenty of wood- 

 land and ten of poor brook meadow. The place had been 

 rented for a number of years prior to my purchase, and the 

 hay carried off, so that when I moved on to the farm, I found 

 it much run out, and the buildings and fences very much out 

 of repair. 



I paid $4,337, and in order to pay for it, I mortgaged it for 

 $4,100, paying only $237, all that I had, after buying my stock. 



