112 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



The stock on the farm this year and the last, consisted of two 

 horses, a pair of oxen, tlirce cows and a heifer. They con- 

 sumed no meadow hay tlic past winter, but were entirely sup- 

 ported on the upland hay and clover. It is my intention to 

 work the farm in the future with horses, to dispose of my oxen 

 this fall, and in their stead place three cows, and add two or 

 three heifers to my present stock. 



The fiirm stands at the present time as follows, viz. : — 



16| acres in upland, mowing and orchards. 



4 " meadow mowing. 



Q^ " wheat, seeded down with grass and clover. 



9| " tillage. 



o " unimproved pasture (1 acre ploughed). 



15 " "wood. 



55 acres. 



NouTU Andoveu, October, 1858. 



MIDDLESEX. 



ESSAY ON FARM MANAGEMENT. 



BY JOSKl'H REYNOLDS. 



Instead of writing an essay in the usual form, and giving 

 directions for the management of a farm, I propose to tell in a 

 plain, straight-forward style, how my neighbor, James Wiseman, 

 has managed his farm. 



His stoi'y is not without instruction, and will probably be 

 read with quite as much interest as the same lessons conveyed 

 in a more formal and didactic style. 



James was the eldest son of Jonathan Wiseman, He had 

 two brothers and one sister. Jonatlian was a diligent, hard- 

 working man, of good moral habits. He owned a farm of about 

 one hundred acres, in one of tlic towns of tliis county, and 

 carried it on in the usual style in whicli Hirms were cultivated 

 in this State, fifty years ago. 



