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In the winter of 1829 I carried on two cords of stable manure 

 and one hundred and fifty bushels of leeched ashes ; in June 

 follo'.\ing, spread the manure and harrowed in oats and grass 

 seed. In 1830 it produced at the first crop two tons and three 

 quarters of good English hay fit for the market ; and about five 

 hundreds of oat fodder, sown by the edge of the ditch where 

 bushes had been dug up, — the after crop yielded about one ton. 



In 1831 the crop exceeded two tons, and would undoubtedly 

 have been greater than the preceding year, but for the grasshop- 

 })ers, that previous to the mowing left the upland and collected 

 in great numbers on this piece. 



The whole expense in labor and manure on this lot, exclusive 

 of draining and harvesting the crops, is thirty-six dollars '. the 

 oats and grass seed cost three dollars ; the whole produce seven 

 tons of hay and oats, worth in the market seventy-five dollars. 



In 1828 commenced clearing the bushes from lot No. 3, con- 

 taining three acres, about one third of which was covered with 

 dogwood, lambkill, he. on the residue of which some grass and 

 abundance of lilies had formerly grown, but by draining had 

 nearly disappeared ; ploughed the whole as well as we were able, 

 as the cattle could not go in the furrow. 



In 18:29 vrith about three cords of manure and two hundred 

 and fifty bushels of leeched ashes, planted the piece with 

 potatoes, squashes, cabbages, &c. ; the crop of potatoes were not 

 abundant, squashes and cabbages very good, pumpkins planted 

 with the potatoes produced about thirty tons. 



In 1830 covered about one acre with sand from one to two 

 inches — spread on two acres three cords of manure and one hun- 

 dred and fifty bushels leeched ashes, — sowed oats, timothy, and 

 red-top and a small quantity of clover on one part of the piece. 



In 1831, the v.hole piece produced eleven loads of hay ol a 

 good quality, containhig not less than nine tons; that part on 

 which the sand was put was most abundant, yielding more than 

 three tons to the acre, as ascertained by measuring a piece of the 

 land and weighing the hay. There \\ as but little difference in 

 tlie crops on that which was manured and that on which no ma- 

 nure \vas put when sowed. 



