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grass seed, and getting in oats ; making in all, an outlay in 

 1852, of $33. The amount of crops was 80 bushels oats, 

 worth 45 cents per bushel, $36, (straw against harvesting) ; 

 five tons of hay, estimated worth $50 standing, amounting to 

 $86. Expenses $33 ; leaving a balance in my favor of $53 for 

 1852. Add to this, $18 in my favor first year, and I have $71. 

 Now, if I bring down the $100 expended in 1849, as labor on 

 stones, and interest three years, making a total of $118, it 

 shows the lot indebted to me at this time, $47. The land is 

 now all seeded to grass, and all stones that would trouble the 

 scythe or horserake are out of the way. 



The whole lot was rolled with a heavy roller, and the small 

 stones picked up at the time my oats were sown, as is my 

 usual custom. It will be necessary for me here to show what 

 was done with the water flowing from lot No. 1, through its 

 drains. The outlet of the eastern drain has been opened into 

 the road, and the water carried along by the south wall for 

 about eighty rods, and used for the last two years on a five- 

 acre mowing lot, at the etxreme east part of the farm. The 

 descent from top to bottom on this lot, is about two feet to the 

 rod, so that the water passes over rapidly, and the effect has 

 been surprising. I cut, last year and the year before, one-third 

 at least, more hay than had ever been cut before on that lot. 

 As this last reformed lot adjoins the road, I have put a culvert 

 across the road, and have introduced the water on to lot No. 

 2, first at the south-west corner of lot No. 2, and about eight 

 rods from said outlet on No. 1, and the other outlet is 25 rods 

 farther east, and carries the water to lot No. 2, centreways. 

 Here are shallow ditches, so that the water may be easily car- 

 ried over the whole lot at my pleasure, and then be permitted 

 to drop down on to a mowing lot still north, or be turned 

 off, as I may choose ; and at the road a flood gate is so con- 

 structed as to let the water on to this lot, or permit it to pass 

 on, as it has done, to a five-acre mowing lot at the east side of 

 the farm. 



Lot No. 3, contains three acres thirty-three rods, and is located 

 directly north of lot No. 1, (the road running east and west, 

 divides the two lots,) and joins lot No. 2 on the east. This lot 

 kad been used for more than fifty years, for what we call nat- 

 ural mowing, and by a light coat of top-dressing of compost 



