FARMS 



25 barrels of apples, 

 Cash for fruit at sundry times, 

 9| barrels of cider, 

 500 pounds of pork, at 8 cents, 

 1,455 pounds of cheese, at 11 cents 

 1*78 pounds of cheese, at 7 cents, 

 100 pounds of butter, at 22 cents, 

 87 dozens of eggs, 

 3 veal calves, 

 Value of produce consumed by four per- 

 sons in the family, at 75 cts. per week, 



Deduct expenses, . 



35 



$25 27 



4 86 



9 50 



40 00 



160 05 



12 46 



220 00 



16 16 



30 50 



156 00 



-$1147 84 

 449 06 



$698 78 



I came upon my farm in the spring of 1842, and have spent 

 a good deal for seven years past in improving the land by 

 blasting and removing large rocks, carrying off small stones 

 from the fields, filling stone holes and hollows, levelling for 

 mowing, and have finished about six acres in this manner. 

 I have built two hundred and thirty rods of wall, estimated to 

 cost from seventy-five cents to five dollars a rod, and new 

 topped forty rods. I have grafted forty-seven apple trees, (a 

 part of them bearing,) four pear trees, and have a good supply 

 of other fruit. I bed my cattle in the stable with straw and 

 refuse hay, and throw it with the manure out of the window, 

 'and use it for surface-spreading on the mowing and tillage land 

 in the spring. In the summer I make about forty cartloads in 

 the barn yard, using loam and swamp mud, and cart loam 

 into the hog yard. I usually remove from it twenty-five or 

 thirty loads in the fall to the mowing ground, and spread it in 

 the spring. That removed from the barn yard in the fall is 

 used to put in the hills of corn and potatoes. For the last 

 three years I have not built so much wall as I did in the four 

 preceding years, having built about thirty rods of wall, ten 

 rods of it estimated to cost five dollars a rod after the stones 

 were blasted and drawn from beds. I have removed the 

 stones and filled up the holes on about two acres, and have 



