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refuse lime. On tlie cabbage ground the crop was excellent. 

 Oil tlic potato ground, which was somewhat shaded by apple 

 trees, about two-thirds as good. Harvested thirty-three bushels 

 of wheat, sixty-two pounds to the bushel. 



Lot No. 6. One acre in corn. The manure Avas ploughed 

 in hills three feet apart each way, three stalks in a hill, hoed 

 three times ; unleached ashes were applied twice. It was esti- 

 mated to yield sixty bushels of sound corn. 



Lot No. 7. Swedish Turnips. — Forty rods manured in 

 diills, and ridged by turning two furrows together, sowed the 

 last of June and thinned to stand eight inches apart, estimated 

 to yield two hundred bushels. 



Lot No. 8. Potatoes. — One acre of turf, a part of which 

 had not been ploughed before on account of surface water. It 

 was drained with open drains, and ploughed ten inches with 

 double plough, manui'cd in drills, and planted jMay 20, with 

 " St. Helena's " and '• Davis's seedlings," cut and planted one 

 piece to the hill and one foot apart. They were hoed twice, 

 and tlie weeds cut or pulled a third time. Yield, two hundred 

 and two bushels good and twenty-four small, by weight two 

 hundred and forty-six bushels. 



Lot No. 9. One-half acre in flat turnips. It is a part of Lot 

 No. 4, following early potatoes, estimated to yield two hundred 

 bushels. 



MowixG Lands. — Four acres were mowed twice, and estimated 

 by those who mowed and secured the hay, to yield three tons 

 per acre the first crop, and one ton per acre the second. On 

 three acres we cut two and a half tons to the acre. I have 

 bought meadow grass to the amount of fifteen dollars, about 

 two acres — mostly swale. I have put three tons in my horse 

 barn, and filled the other, thirty by thirty-eight, one bay on a 

 level with the floor, and the other three feet above it — to the 

 ridge. I think we have twenty-six tons of first quality hay. 

 I do not know of any spot of foul grass in my meadow land. 



Pasture. — My pasture of fifteen acres has been excellent 

 through the season, and is still good — October 11. From 

 seven cows we are making at this date, one hundred and 

 twenty-five pounds of butter per month, besides the sale of all 

 the milk on Saturdays to the milk-men, and what we use daily 

 in two families. Our cows are fed with cabbage leaves and 



