FARMS. 



99 



EXPENSES. 



Interest improved land, including bu 



and stock, .... 

 Taxes on the above, 



Labor, 



Two tons salt hay, . 



Manure applied, 



Grass seed, .... 



Keeping cows and sheep one year, 



Halifax, November 14, 1861. 



Idinj 



1178 00 



20 00 



208 00 



20 00 



100 00 



5 00 



160 00 



1691 00 

 $171 00 



Statement of Orlando H. Shaw. 



In the management of my farm, during the year that is 

 to-day brought to a close, my object has been, not to get the 

 greatest yield that could possibly be obtained, but so to increase 

 its fertility, and otherwise improve it, as to render it capable of 

 yielding paying crops in the future. 



The labor on the farm, this year, has been performed by 

 myself, and a boy fourteen years of age, our whole time being 

 devoted to it. The team work needed, such as ploughing and 

 drawing stone, that could not be done with a horse, and a few 

 days' assistance blasting rocks, was obtained by " changing 

 works." 



The products of the farm, for the year, are as follows : — 



One acre, planted to corn ; three-fourths of it was on the 

 " lot " from which I have been removing rocks for the last 

 two years, and was, last year, planted to corn, in drills, for 

 " soiling." On this lot, (it having previously been ploughed,) 

 I spread sixty horse-wagon loads of manure from the barn 

 cellar, (a compost of horse, hogs, and cow manure, with muck,) 

 and ploughed it in, five inches deep. Furrowed it for planting, 

 three and one-half by three feet apart, and put ten loads of the 

 same kind of manure in the hills. 



On the 13th day of May it was planted with a " small, short- 

 eared, eight-rowed, yellow variety," (a kind much liked by 

 farmers in this vicinity, who are satisfied with from twenty to 

 thirty bushels to the acre,) and came up remarkably well. I 



