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is seldom seen in this country. He pays a rent which is con- 

 sidered equal to a fair interest on the value of the farm — not, 

 of course, what some of it might be worth for house-lots — and 

 makes for himself a satisfactory profit — thus making tenant 

 farming profitable to both landlord and tenant. By the 

 improvement of some portions of the farm and greatly increas- 

 ing the growth of grass, he has been enabled to more than 

 double the number of cattle kept. The improvements have 

 been expensive, but have still been made to pay. On some 

 boggy and wet lands, which were formerly actually worthless, 

 so far as regards the production of a crop, he lias expended one 

 hundred dollars per acre in drainage and covering witli earth — 

 mostly gravel — yet it has for five years paid the interest of more 

 than two hundred dollars an acre. It has produced an average 

 of more than three tons (at two cuttings) of good hay to the 

 acre each season. The produce of the farm is converted chiefly 

 into milk. 



The farm of Jacob F. Eaton, Quincy, consists of forty acres, 

 all of which, except an acre and a half, is adapted to tillage. It 

 is a milk farm, and the number of cows and other stock kept, is 

 unusually large in proportion to the extent of land — being 

 twenty-nine head of cattle and eight horses. The farm has 

 produced all the fodder required for wintering this stock, with 

 the addition of forty dollars' worth of grass bought, and the 

 salt grass of ten acres of marsh. Besides this, it has afforded 

 summer forage sufiicient to half support this large stock. The 

 cattle are pastured on a tract that only yields about half grass 

 enough for their support, and they arc therefore fed at night, 

 in the barn, with green corn. 



For winter fodder, ^Ir. Eaton relies much on barley, cut in 

 the milk and dried. The barley hay is run through a cutting 

 machine, and cotton-seed cake or meal is mixed with it at the 

 rate of two quarts per cow, morning and evening. The cows 

 get one foddering of salt hay and one of upland hay, imcut, 

 each day. This is found to be a good mode of feeding. The 

 cotton-seed meal has been used for several months, and Mr. 

 Eaton is well pleased with it. Tlie cattle were in excellent 

 health and condition, in December, when our notes were taken. 

 He formerly fed with brewers' grains to much extent, paying 



