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This farm con-ists of about 35 acres, (as we are in- 

 formed,) and was, two years since, in a state of nature, 

 and very rough land. It has been brought to, and the 

 produce during the year 1818, was as follows, viz.: — 

 Pork killed, weighed 7960 lbs. 12 live pigs, sold for 

 §42. On hand, 57 pigs. Corn, 400 bushels. Pota- 

 toes, 2250 bushels. Turnips, 900 bushels. 3 tons of 

 squashes. 50 tons of pumpkins, together with all the 

 common summer vegetables for the alms-house. 



We doubt whether any farm in the United States, hai 

 produced more, in proportion to its size ; and it is a proof 

 what well directed industry can effect. 



A brief comparison between the advantages and disad- 

 vantages of agriculture in Britain and in America. Se- 

 lected principally from the writings of Mr. Livingston. 



The first advantage England possesses, consists in her 

 early spring; this enables the farmer to commence his 

 work sooner than he can in this country : to this cause it 

 is owing, that such crops as require early sowing on a 

 well prepared fallow, succeed better in Britain than 

 here. Barley, for instance, requires four good spring 

 ploughings, and yet should be put in by the first of May ; 

 this cannot be done here, except upon very light lauds, 

 our clays being hardly fit to plough before May ; but 

 light land will not produce good barley without manure. 



In England it may be raised to advantage on strong 

 loams, and even on clay. It is for this reason that bar- 

 ly is nearly as cheap in England as here, though every 

 other grain is generally much dearer. The same rea- 

 soning applies to beans, (horse beans,) which are unpro- 

 ductive in England, unless sown in February and March, 

 which is hardly possible here on strong clays, the soil 

 these require. Turnips cannot be raised in our climate 

 to so much advantage, as a food for cattle ; the season 

 in which they are sown being usually very dry, and the 

 plants Uable to be destroyed by the fly. 



Great Britain has also some advantage over us in the 

 shortness of the winter, but much less than is generally 

 imagined. Their autumn is cold and wet; and though 

 there is some apparent verdure, yet the vegetption is so 

 slovf, as to render it usual for good farmers to house 



