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pose. Owing to a deficiency of pasturage we sometimes allow our 

 cattle to feed upon mowing lands, after the crop is taken off, where 

 least injury may be done to the turf The expediency, however, 

 of doing this, we know to be questioned. 



For general cultivation, we plough from eight to ten inches 

 deep. Early Fall ploughings are preferred in laying down lands, 

 and late Fall for lands designed for cultivation the succeeding 

 Spring. The ploughs used by us are those of Prouty & Mears' 

 manufacture. 



We always use the harrow for general cultivation, and when 

 seeding down, the roller, also, is used. 



Our corn is planted in a deep black loam, prepared usually by 

 spreading and ploughing in one half of the manure to be used, 

 and putting the remainder into the hill. The rows are made 

 three and a half feet apart, and the hills three feet. Quantity of 

 manure applied, eight cords to the acre. 



We are not so much incommoded by crows as blackbirds in our 

 cornfields. Our usual mode of protection against them is to 

 plough and hoe as soon as possible after the corn is up. 



We use no preparation for steeping corn. It is our custom to 

 cultivate and hoe the corn three times during the season, using, 

 preparatory to the first hoeing, the cultivator, and subsequently 

 the plough. The latter we consider the best implement for gene- 

 ral cultivation. 



The kind of corn grown by us for many years, is what has been 

 sometimes called the " Phinney" corn — a ten, twelve or fourteen 

 rowed corn, which has the advantage of early ripening, and of 

 partially husking itself in the field. Our own experience leads us 

 to prefer this variety to others with which we are acquainted. 

 An average yield is estimated at about seventy bushels to the 

 acre, and the cost of raising, one dollar or upwards per bushel. 

 When well ripened, which is usually about the first of October, 

 we harvest it, cutting it at the root with a scythe. The stalks, 

 when cut, are placed with their butts uppermost in the hills, and 

 partially dried ; they are then bound up and put upon fences to 

 complete their drying. When well cured, their comparative value 

 for fodder is estimated at half the price of good hay. 



In easily cultivated grounds, to plant and cover half an acre of 

 corn is considered a good day's work for an able-bodied man ; 

 also to harvest the same amount. 



We raise early in preference to late potatoes, in soil similar to 

 that for corn ; manure with coarse barnyard manure, and give 

 them the same cultivation as corn, excepting that Ave hoe them 

 but twice. The Chenango potato has heretofore been most culti- 

 vated by us ; and, but for its liability to rot, would be preferred 

 to most other kinds, for quality as well as productiveness. As a 



