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corn ; by sowing at the time of sowing oats in the spring ; by 

 harrowing in where rye was sown the autumn previous ; and by 

 turning over the turf on wet land in August, and harrowing in 

 a liberal coat of compost manure. 



Our team work is done principally with horses, some pieces 

 of our land being from one to two miles from home. 



We have fattened twenty swine during the past year, making 

 forty-five hundred weight of pork, feeding upon milk and slops 

 from the house, pumpkins, x refuse apples, soft corn, &c, and 

 fattening upon meal ground from a mixture of three parts of 

 broom seed and two of corn. 



The crops raised on our farm are consumed entirely at home, 

 except the broom-corn brush. 



* The amount of the products of the farm for the present year 

 is derive'd, considerably, from estimates made by a comparison 

 with the known produce of previous years. 



The price of produce we have endeavored to fix at what it 

 would realize if sold on the farm. The broom brush having 

 been sold, is reckoned at what it brought. 



We have included in the item for labor the estimated value 

 of our own and the expense of hired labor, with the addition 

 of board. We have considered that nothing is lost in employ- 

 ing so much help as to have farm work thoroughly done and 

 the various crops cultivated and gathered at the proper season. 



Products of the farm : — 



715 bushels of corn, at $1, . . . $715 00 

 12,000 pounds of broom-corn brush, at 9 

 cents, ..... 

 1,050 bushels of broom-corn seed, at 40 

 cents, ..... 

 37 bushels of wheat, at $2.25, . 

 90 « rye, at $1.17, 



95 " rye and oats, at 75 cts., 



80 " potatoes, at 50 cents, 



40 tons of hay, at $12, 

 30 " corn stover, at $G, 

 3} " wheat and oat straw, at $6, 

 3 " rye straw, at $5, 



