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five bushels to the acre. The average produce of all my land 

 planted with corn will equal forty-five bushels to tlie acre. 



My crops of onions and carrots were cultivated and taken 

 care of by one of my neighbors on shares — he receiving a 

 certain proportion of the crop for his labor in attending to the 

 same. This field of nine and a half acres, that was taken care 

 of upon shares — myself finding manure, and receiving my part 

 of the produce on the field — has yielded me, after allowing 

 all charges, an income of at least fifteen dollars an acre. 



I sowed three acres of wheat, and three acres of rye, on land 

 in a fine state of cultivation ; but on account of the blight 

 generally prevalent in this vicinity the present season, the pro- 

 duce was very small, scarcely sufficient to pay for the labor of 

 gathering and cleansing. We afterwards mowed on the same 

 land, a crop of nearly a ton to the acre, of tolerable fodder for 

 the cattle. 



My oats were of very good quality, and yielded twenty-five 

 bushels to the acre. 



In addition to the crops before stated, we raised as many 

 vegetables as were required for the supply of the family. 



Manure. — I have paid much attention to Increasing the quan- 

 tity of manure on my place. I obtain from my barn yard, from 

 seventy-five to one hundred loads annually ; and from my pig 

 pens, as much or more than from the barn yard ; — so that the 

 manure produced on my place is not less than one hundred and 

 fifty cart loads annually. In addition to this I purchased the 

 last year forty cords of lead factory manure, for which I paid one 

 dollar a cord — and in years previous I have usually purchased 

 some manure, though not so much as the last year. 



My own attention is much divided between my farming and 

 other business. I am a carpenter, and usually have two or more 

 hands beside myself engaged in this business. 



I have a Brick Yard on my place, in which I manufac- 

 tured between two hundred and fifty and two hundred and sixty 

 thousand of bricks the present year — the labor in the same is 

 done at so much per thousand — all the rest of the care of the 

 same devolves upon me. 



