ON FAHMS. 



nearly a yellow loam ; in spots which are niiiuerous and large 

 enough to make probably 3 acres, the gravel comes quite or 

 very near to the surface. I presume that the greater portion of 

 my tillage land has been improved as such for more than a cen- 

 tury and a half; but there are about 10 acres of it which was, 

 until within the last 12 or 15 years, rough, rocky pasture land, 

 mostly covered with bushes. Since that has been cultivated, I 

 have pastured a portion of the farm which had long been tilled. 



Planting, The present year I planted a little more than 5 

 acres. About one fifth of an acre was planted with early and 

 sweet corn, early potatoes, beans, peas, turnips, &,c., for use in 

 my family during the summer and autumn. The produce of 

 this ground was good in quantity and quality. I have not pre- 

 pared myself to give you a more particular account of it. While 

 the ground was frozen last winter, I carried stable manure on to 

 a peat meadow, which in the summer is too loose to bear up the 

 cattle. Early in June about one sixth of an acre of this meadow 

 was turned up with the hoe ; manure (a cord and a half) was put 

 into the hill, and potatoes, with a few pumpkin seeds, were 

 planted. The piece was hoed only once, and early in the au- 

 tumn 1 obtained from it 40 bushels of good potatoes, and a cart 

 full (40 bushels) of pumpkins. 



I have 5 acres in one enclosure, the whole of which was 

 planted this year. Along the JN.E. side of this field is a row of 

 trees, apple and locust ; on the N.W. side a row mostly locust. 

 The soil on this last named side ol the field is too shallow to 

 produce corn well, therefore I planted a strip, 4 or 5 rods wide 

 by 20 long, with beans, potatoes, squashes, melons, and corn of 

 a small kind ; planted potatoes on the remaining three borders 

 of the field also ; and the remainder of the field (4 acres and 21 

 poles) with corn. The soil in this enclosure is mostly the yel- 

 low loam. Probably it has been tilled from near the time when 

 my ancestors came to reside here, which was as early as 1641, 

 and possibly earlier. Since 1827 it has been pastured. 



Near the end of Nov. 1834, I spread 7 cords of manure upon 

 about two fifths of the 4 acres and 21 rods which I was intend- 

 ing to plant with corn. The ground was broken up as fast as 

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