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ties of plaster, ashes, and salt. On ten acres of newly broken 

 ground, he had 154 bushels of rye ; on six acres, 200 bushels 

 of oats ; on three acres, 500 bushels of potatoes, with no ma- 

 nure but plaster. More than half of this potato crop was dis- 

 eased. Among the corn were raised 12 bushels of beans and 6 

 cords of pumpkins. He cut 30 tons of hay ; kept two cows 

 and a horse through the summer ; sold ."^11 worth of milk and 

 $20 worth of butter, besides the supply of these articles for his 

 family. He stall-fed a pair of oxen and three cows, from the 

 first of December till March. He kept eleven hogs through the 

 winter, which sold, in the spring, for $100 more than they cost 

 him in the autumn. In addition to these, he wintered nine 

 cows, six oxen, and a horse. The milk sold in the winter 

 amounted to $75. He has a nursery of fruit-trees, occupying 

 two acres and a half, from which there were considerable sales, 

 but of the expense and profit of the nursery he had made no 

 estimate. From the few trees in bearing, the sale of apples 

 amounted to $50. His hired help, Mr. Davis, stated to be equal 

 to three men for eight months, at $15 a month, and one man, 

 at $10 a month for the other four months of the year. The 

 product of the farm, beyond the supplies for his family, is stated 

 as follows : — 



$966 00 



Mr. Davis has made considerable improvement on his farm 

 during the year. A barn, 50 feet by 36, 15 feet posts, he had 



