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meadow mud to be etjuallj serviceable. Besides this, I have 

 unitbrmly raised a half acre of sweet corn, plantin*f it as I do 

 field corn. This furnishes an abundant supply for table use, or 

 for market, and in connection with the corn fodder and following 

 it, the best food for milch cows, or for store pigs. 



I have for many years laid down my cultivated grounds with 

 spring wheat and grass seed ; finding the Avheat to yield twenty 

 bushels per acre, and the grass S3ed to take well. The ground 

 has been usually ploughed in the spring, and compost manure or 

 guano mixed with sand or loam, spread upon it and harrowed in 

 thoroughly. I then sow two bushels of wheat per acre, with 

 the usual quantity of grass seed and clover. The wheat is first 

 soaked in a steep of ashes, or carbonate of ammonia, — which last 

 I prefer, — and rolled in lime or plaster. The ground is then har- 

 rowed and rolled. When the grain has grown about two inches, 

 unleached ashes, or ashes and plaster mixed, are sown at the rate 

 of fifteen to twenty bushels per acre. The best sorts of wheat I 

 have found are the Black Sea and the Java. The latter is a 

 favorite grain in this vicinity, being less liable to smut or blast, 

 producing very sweet though darker flour than the former. 



I have seldom sown oats of late years except to be cut when 

 green, believing that they exhaust the soil if permitted to ripen, 

 and are less favorable to the growth of grass seed when sown with 

 them. Spring rye has given place almost entirely to winter rye, 

 which, on my land, is the more profitable crop. Grass seed sown 

 with it generally does well. A piece of ground which had been 

 used for many years for garden purposes, was sown with winter 

 rye not long ago, without any manure. The crop of grain was 

 very fine, and has been succeeded by two large crops of red and 

 white clover, where no clover seed had been sown for fifteen years. 

 I have tried bai'ley, but only in a small quantity, and without 

 much success. On many farms in this section I believe it to be a 

 very profitable crop, whether cut green for milch cows or ripened 

 for the grain. 



I have planted potatoes in different soils, with different treat- 

 ment, and with various results. The soundest tubers have been 

 uniformly grown on high land, with little manure; and that well 

 rotted. I do not think that my crops have suffered much from 

 the rot, still they have not been in any way superior to those on 

 many farms in the vicinity. One experiment may be worth 

 stating. A piece of ground recently inclosed from a pasture had 

 been ploughed, upon part of which a bed of spent tan formerly 

 laid. The same sort of manure was applied to the whole, and the 

 same sort of seed planted. That portion of the land where the 

 tan was still present yielded a good crop of very large and sound 

 potatoes ; while the produce of the rest was almost worthless be- 

 cause of the rot. During the last two years I have planted the 



