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beds by one, two, or three yoke of oxen, split or blast the re- 

 mainder, till you get them all out ; dig a trench from three to 

 three and a half feet wide, and from two to four feet deep, 

 which fill with your small and refuse stone. Fill your stone 

 holes with the loam taken from the trench. Lay your wall on 

 this foundation, a balance wall will be preferred. These 

 trenches will take off much of the surface and spring water, 

 and will be likely to keep open or free. If it remains too wet, 

 procure from A. S. Babcock, Albany, some of his three and a 

 half inch tile ; follow his directions in laying them, which will be 

 about three feet deep and twenty feet apart. These drains can 

 be put down at less cost than any others, and will work well. 



In your first ploughing you will have a broken sod ; break 

 up with Prouty & Mears' road plough, turn over the broken 

 sods with a spade, to keep a clean, open furrow, follow with 

 iron bars and take out all the loose stone, mark the fast ones 

 to take out when the ploughing is finished. Carry off the 

 small stones as fast as they are thrown out. Your lot is now 

 ploughed, at an average depth of twelve inches. Put on this 

 lot, if in season, about six cords of manure broadcast to the 

 acre, together with six bushels of salt and thkty bushels of 

 ground bone. The salt can be purchased from Ward & Co. 

 at twenty cents, and the bone at thirty cents per bushel. Give 

 the land a harrowing, and plant corn in drills for fodder for 

 your cows, or sow broadcast a thimbleful of purple top stropped 

 leaved turnip seed to every three square rods ; sow them with 

 your thumb and fingers carefully, roll the same with your farm 

 roller. When the turnip seed is up in its smooth leaves, sow 

 broadcast when it rains gently, or in a low atmosphere, 300 

 lbs. guano mixed with plaster, to the acre. The yield for this 

 year will be quite satisfactory. 



Second year plough deep, and follow with a subsoil plough, 

 with sufficient team, to the depth of twenty inches from the 

 surface. Cross plough and harrow, then put on ten cords good 

 manure, together with ten bushels salt to the acre, plough it in 

 shallow, harrow and plough till quite fine, then harrow with a 

 light harrow, taking off as often as they appear, all the small 

 stones. Now draw a line across the lot at each end, a rod 

 from the wall, and mark out a small trench, then take two 

 lines and stretch lengthwise of the lot, two feet from the wall 



