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which I plant with corn and potatoes, or sow with the small 

 grains, about six or eight acres, annually ; about twenty acres 

 of pasture land ; the same number of acres of woodland ; the 

 remainder meadow. 



4. What amount of hay cut in 1848 and in 1852? 



My main crop of English hay was much less in 1852 than 

 in 1848. I had a small piece of reclaimed meadow on which 

 the hay was much better this year than it was four years 

 ago. 



5. What grain do you raise ? 



For a hoed crop, corn ; of small grains, I find I can make it 

 much more profitable to raise oats than rye or barley; wheat 

 I have never yet tried, but jiropose to do so on about an acre 

 this fall. 



6. What roots do you raise, and what value do yea place 

 upon them as food for stock ? 



Carrots I have raised to some extent, and consider them 

 valuable for horses, oxen, or cows, adding, I believe, however,* 

 more to the quality than to the quantity of milk in the last 

 named case. Fiat turnips, which I also raise to some extent, 

 (sown broadcast through my cornfields,) I think on the con- 

 trary, increase the quantity of milk, when fed to cows, without 

 improving its richness. Potatoes I raise for my own con- 

 sumption, and to a greater or less extent for market. 



7. At what time do you seed down grass land, spring or 

 fall, and at about what date ; kind and quantity of seed, and 

 with what grain best? 



I prefer, from trials which I have made at both seasons, to 

 sow my land with grass seed in the spring, at the same time 

 with my oats. My experience has convinced me that unless 

 the land is very rich, the first crop of grass is better when 

 seeded in May than in August. I sow ten quarts of herds- 

 grass, three pecks of redtop, and more or less clover seed to 

 the acre, as I think the land requires. In answer to the last 

 clause of the question I would say, that I should prefer to 

 sow my grass seed with rye, were my land suitable to produce 

 that crop, which it is not. I can raise four bushels of oats 

 easier than one of rye. 



8. At what time do you apply top-dressing to grass land, 

 and why at that particular time ? 



