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upon but what the pasture yields. When the feed there grows 

 short, I give them daily, at tl)e barn, green corn stalks. About 

 the middle of Sept. they are turned into the fields, and need no 

 feeding at the barn for several weeks. When the fall feed 

 has become short, I give them turnips, generally with the tops 

 on. By the use of these, and a few coin stalks, they are kept 

 along until the latter part of Noveniber. During the three win- 

 ter months, they are fed mostly upon meadow hay, straw, tur- 

 nips and corn stalks. The meadow hay is salted when put 

 into the barn, and before being given to the stock both that and 

 the straw are chopped with tiie straw-cutter. In the spring they 

 are fed upon good upland hay, which is not cut. For a few- 

 weeks about the time of calving I give each cow one or two qts. 

 of cob-meal per day. In the warm season the horses run in the 

 pastures and fields, and in the winter are fed upon cut hay and 

 cob-meal. In former years I gave my swine the wash from the 

 kitchen and dairy, meal, and, in the autumn, unripe corn upon 

 the cob. This season 1 have boiled apples and cob-meal togeth- 

 er, and the swine thrive and fatten well upon tiiis mixture. 

 Since the first of Sept. I have used in this way about fie bushel 

 of small ap[)les daily. For my store pigs, I thicker. -tiie wash 

 from the kitchen with boiled apples and a very small quai-iity 

 of cob-meal. Those which I am fattening have the wash from 

 the dairy, thickened with apples and more meal ; they eat also 

 some small unripe corn. I think 1 do not use more than half 

 the meal this season that i have used in fornjer years to obtain 

 the same quantity of pork. 



(Quantity of Labor, from Dec. 1, 1834, to Dec. 1, 1835. 

 Myself the whole year; one son, 14 years old, has lived at 

 home the whole year, but attended school 4 months ; another 

 son, 10 years old, with me the whole year, but attended 

 school 5 months ; an older son, whom I hire, 8 months. Paid 

 for labor done by others 30 dollars. Received for labor done 

 by myself and the three sons above named, in the shoe man- 

 ufactory of two other sons, 56 dollars and -f^%. Received for 

 labor done with the team off the farm, 29 dollars and y^.s^. 



Excepting one man 23 days, all the labor on the farm has 



