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squash, with fifteen loads manure ; got four tons of squash. 

 Plowed again, Oct. 28 ; and again, May 24, 1881 ; put on 

 twenty-seven loads of manure, and sowed to ensilage corn, 

 June 2. Crop stood twelve to fourteen feet high, and was 

 very heavy. Plowed again, and sowed to rye, with eighteen 

 loads of manure, Sept. 27. 



The first crop taken off in the summer of '82, was green 

 rye, and yielding at the rate of about three tons to the acre, 

 when dried. This was cut June 8th, and the ground 

 plowed again, immediately, and twenty-four loads of man- 

 ure from the barn cellar put on, with a Kemp's Spreader, 

 harrowed in, and sown with Hungarian grass, which was 

 cut, August 17th, and gave a little over two tons to the 

 aci'e. After this was taken oif, the ground was plowed 

 again, and had twelve more spreader loads of manure 

 harrowed in, and was sown with rye, which was cut the 

 11th day of the following June, and put into the silo. It 

 was a very heavy crop, standing from six to seven feet 

 high, and the estimated weight, from the weight of a 

 single rod, was fourteen tons to the acre. 



The crop which followed this, was cabbage, for which the 

 land was prepared by plowing, harrowing, and furrowing 

 out ; twenty-seven loads of manure was strewn along the 

 furrows, covered in, and cabbage plants set, from June 19th 

 to July 10th. About half of the plants were from good 

 seed, and did well, and the crop sold for about $200 ; the 

 other half made a good crop of fodder. 



The nature of the soil is a dark, heavy loam, inclined to 

 be stony, and a little gravelly in spots. 



In the spring of '84, this acre was plowed once. May 

 12th, about eight inches deep, and, at this time, twenty-two 

 loads of manure of thirty bushels each, were spread on, 

 and plowed under. It was harrowed over twice, with an 

 Acme harrow, May 2 1st, and planted with a Keystone Corn 

 ]jlanter, which drops single kernels thirteen inches apart, 

 in a continuous row. Five quarts of Longfellow Corn of 



