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3d. The crops consist of corn, rye, and potatoes ; land cul- 

 tivated and quantities produced as follows : five acres of corn 

 yielding 150 bushels, or 30 bushels per acre ; two acres of rye, 

 yielding 40 bushels, or 20 bushels per acre ; one acre of pota- 

 toes yielding 100 bushels. To these may also be added, the 

 crop of hay, annually about 40 tons. All these crops, with 

 few and unimportant exceptions, are consumed on the farm. 



4th and 5th. The stock consists of four oxen, ten cows, one 

 yearling, two horses and two colts; the cattle are of a mixed 

 breed of Durham and Holderness. The product of the milch 

 cows is 1,000 lbs. of butter, and 300 lbs. of cheese annually, 

 besides the milk furnished for the consumption of the family, 

 or 78 gallons per year; 750 lbs. of butter are annually sold; 

 from the sour milk, whey, &c., eight hogs are fatted. 



7th. In preparing the ground for my grain crops, I plough 

 a depth of from seven to ten inches, for potatoes to a greater 

 depth where it is possible without disturbing the subsoil. I 

 used the subsoil plough during one season — no change was 

 perceptible in the crop of hay, but the fall feed was better 

 where it was used than in other parts of the field. 



8th. The manures employed are composts of loam and mud 

 with the excrements. After lying in the yard until by plough- 

 ing and harrowing they are thoroughly mixed and composted, 

 they are heaped up and remain until October, when they are 

 earned out and laid in heaps of eight or ten loads in the tillage 

 lands for the ensuing year, and also in small heaps upon the 

 mowing lands. Green manure is also drawn from the barn 

 in the spring upon the tillage lands, laid in small heaps and 

 spread. The hog manure is drawn out in the spring, laid 

 in the same large heaps upon the barnyard manure, and com- 

 posted therewith. About 100 loads are annually applied to 

 the tillage lands and about 70 to the mowing and irrigated 

 lands. 



9th. In the composting of manures in these yards, both 

 meadow mud and soil are used in quantities varying from»60 

 to 100 loads annually. 



10th and 11th. I use no artificial manures except gypsum, 

 nor any liquid manure separately from the solid. I am, how- 

 ever, inclined to the opinion, from an experiment made two 

 years ago upon a somewhat exhausted field, that soil, or sandy 



