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and tool room, &c. The cows gave me 12,525 qts. of milk, of 

 which 11,786 qts. were sold for $370. Sales from all other 

 sources, 1161.30.. Barn building left but little time for raising 

 vegetables. 



At the beginning of this year, 1880, my stock consisted of 

 six cows, two horses, one breeding sow, and forty hens. The 

 sales to date, Oct. 10th, have been 42,031 qts. of milk, 1102.05 ; 

 fruit, vegetables, &c., -1131.03. I am now selling my crops as 

 they come in and my total sales for the year will doubtless be 

 81000. I have on hand, 130 bbls. picked apples, 70 dozen 

 Celery, 5 tons Mangels, | acre of Cabbage, 50 bu. Round 

 Turnips, 5 tons squashes, 10 bushels Potatoes, 12 tons Hay 

 and Oats, (100 bushels Dandelions for next Spring's sales). 

 I have this season pastured my cows four months, an experi- 

 ment I shall not repeat ; their total product has been 12,881 

 qts. of milk in 9 mos. and ten days. My stock now is seven 

 cows, two heifers, two horses, one hog, two shoats, twenty 

 hens, and one hundred chickens. 



This year we have reclaimed an acre of the meadow by get- 

 ting out the stone, under draining and seeding down to grass. 

 Work was begun on it two years ago, but last year it was so 

 wet that we only succeeded in plowing it roughly once and 

 getting a few potatoes off of the dryest corner of it. It has 

 not produced the value of a ton of hay for ten years, but 

 promises now to do better in the future. 



I have made no account of the labor I liave hired as it has 

 been more than balanced by what I have earned with my team, 

 in working off of the place until this year there is a balance 

 against me of ^22.00. 



Thirty-five dollars will cover tlie cost of all the manure I 

 have bought, except a small stable which I exchanged hay for. 

 I have drawn a great many loads of muck and sand to mix 

 with the manure, but it has cost nothing but the labor. 



No account has been made of milk, eggs, pouluy, pork, 

 fruit or vegetables, used by a family of four. We have had a 



