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with H cord of meadow mud and a cask of lime ; also two 

 thirds of a cord of peat ashes ; sowed, oats 3^ bushels, clover 8 

 lbs., herd's grass Ig- peck, red top 3 pecks ; ploughed across the 

 furrows without moving the sod ; harrowed and then rolled. 

 This yielded more than two tons of oats, which were cut when 

 unripe, for fodder. The stubble looks well, quite as well as the 

 other. This experiment has thus far exceeded my expecta- 

 tions. 



Nearly an half acre more was well manured last year, and 

 planted with corn. Last spring 1 sowed this with oats and cut 

 them while green — near a ton. This ground was ploughed up 

 early in August ; harrowed ; furrowed one way three feet apart ; 

 between two and three cords of manure put in the drills ; sowed 

 with turnips and rolled. The manure was mostly meadow mud, 

 that had been put into the barn cellar early in June, and from 

 which the droppings from the cows at night had fallen. 1 once 

 harrowed between the rows of turnips, and thinned them. The 

 piece (73 poles) yielded 218 bushels of very fine turnips, which 

 were harvested the first week in November. 



Mowing. This season I mowed about 17 acres of tillage 

 land, which yielded 22 tons of good hay ; one acre of gravelled 

 meadow, yielding 1^ ton ; and near an acre of irrigated land, 

 giving li ton — the produce of these two acres is hardly mer- 

 chantable, but is very good feed for stock — also, about ten 

 acres of wet meadow, which gave only about 6 tons. Of second 

 crop I had two tons. 



One acre of tillage land which produced clover this year, was 

 ploughed up early in the autumn of 1832, and immediately 

 sowed with turnips. In the spring of 1833 it was cross plough- 

 ed, and dressed with 6 or 7 cords of manure, half of which was 

 ploughed in, and half put in the hill. It was planted with corn 

 and yielded about 60 bushels. In the fall of 1833, after the 

 corn was harvested, I spread upon the acre between 3 and 4 

 cords of manure, from the barn cellar, and ploughed it in. In 

 the spring of 1834 I put 3 cords of manure in the hill, and again 

 planted with corn, and a few potatoes ; the crop was about 55 

 bushels of corn and 20 of potatoes. This piece was cultivated 



