ON FARMS. 35 



This sea?;on I have had only four cows, and one tliree y( ar 

 old heifer till the first of August ; and did not milk but four 

 after that time. 



I make about forty cords, or eighty cart loads of manure an- 

 nually. This is done principally by collecting materials from 

 meadows and ditches, and placing the same in my barn yard and 

 hog pen. 



I commonly plough up my grass land in the month of August, 

 and cross plough it in the Spring. I plant two years in succe' - 

 sion. The manure made in the barn yard and hog pen through 

 the Summer, I carry into the field in the Autumn, and lay the 

 same in heaps, to be put in the hills in the Spring. I spread 

 from fifteen to twenty loads of my green manure to the acre, 

 upon land intended to be laid down for grass. 



The labor upon my farm is done by myself, one man, and a 

 boy, with the addition of another man in haying. I work out 

 with my team and earn enough, so that the labor applied to the 

 farm, would not exceed the labor of two men through the season. 

 The produce of my form the present year, as near as 1 can 

 ascertain, is as follows, viz : 



English hay 30 tons. 



Meadow hay 14 tons. 



Indian corn 143 bushels. 



Potatoes 270 bushels. 



White beans 2f bushels. 



Turnips 12 bushels. 



Oats - _._-_. 55 bushels. 



Rye - .-.__- 9 bushels. 



Cider 8 bairels. 



Pork 1500 lbs. 



Butter from April 1st. > o-rg ji,^. 



to Nov. 1st. 5 

 Cheese — new milk _ . _ 06[ Jbs. 



" four mealM - - - 137 lbs. 



'' three '* . . - no lbs. 



JEDEDIAH H. BAKKER. 

 An.dovc>\ Nov. IGt/i. 1631. 



