34 ON FARMS. 



I have now on hand, as neaily as can be est'unated, one hun- 

 dred ox cart loads of manure. 1 am in the liabit of covering my 

 mowing land with sea manure, as I can obtain it. 



The labor on the farm the last year has been my own time, 

 one hired man seven months, and an additional hand for nine- 

 teen days in the haying season. My wife superintends the 

 Dairy, assisted by a young woman in the family. The family in 

 addition to the above produce are supplied with what milk and 

 summer vegetables they require. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



JESSE CURTIS. 



Marblehead, Slst Dec. 1831. 



JEDEDIAH II. BARKER'S STATEMENT. 



TO THK COMMITTEE ON FARMS. 



Gentlemen — 



My farm is situated in Andover North Parish, 

 near Boxford, and contains one hundred and forty acres. The 

 surface is hilly, the soil shallow, and of middling quality. 



I usually cultivate with corn and potatoes about five acres — 

 with rye and oats, from four to five acres. 



I usually have about twenty acres of English mowing, and 

 fourteen acres of meadow. 



I have about forty-four acres of pasturing — the remainder of 

 my farm is wood, and unimproved land. 



My crop of grass is much larger this year than it usually has 

 been, and is nearly tw^ice as much as was obtained from the same 

 land eight years since, wdien I first came in possession of the 

 form. My corn is as good as it was the last year. My oats are 

 of good quality, but not so many bushels to the acre as the last 

 year — that crop having been about forty bushels. 



There is on the farm a large number of apple trees, and in 

 common seasons there is made from the fruit about a hundred 

 barrels of cider, besides twenty barrels of winter apples — this 

 season there are very few apples. 



The stock on my farm usually consists of one horse, four oxen, 

 five cows, and eight or ten young cattle, and ten sheep. 



