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STATEMENT OF MR. IklOTLEY. 



The Bussej farm, occupied and managed by the subscriber, 

 contains three hundred acres of land, various in character. 



The largest crop is hay. This season, Ave cut about one hun- 

 dred and eighty tons. Had under the plough, as follows : — 



Eleven acres winter rye — yielding 310 bushels. My plan in 

 raising rye, is to take a piece of grass land which requires plough- 

 ing up, and in August, after taking off the hay and ploughing, 

 seed down with rye, — one bushel and a half to the acre, — harrow 

 and roll, without any manure. In this way, I get from 25 to 80 

 bushels per acre, and a good crop of straw ; and my land is in 

 good condition to receive manure for a corn crop, the following 

 year, — the old stubble making the land, when ploughed, remain 



Five acres corn, which, owing to the cold and wet early in the 

 season, proved a failure ; yielding only forty bushels per acre. 

 The variety planted is the Bristol or Smutty White. Heretofore, 

 I have raised from eighty to one hundred and seven bushels per 

 acre. Four acres in ruta bagas, sugar beets and carrots, yielding 

 1016 bushels ruta bagas, 771 bushels carrots, 278 bushels sugar 

 beets, making a total of 2065 bushels. 



I have been very unfortunate in the potato crop, for the last 

 five years ; invariably losing from a half to the whole crop. 



This year I planted only one acre to Davis Seedling, and the 

 result Avas a total failure, — saving only about twenty bushels 

 which sold early. 



jNIy neat stock is of the Jersey breed, either full blood or 

 grade. I raise all my full blood calves, and all the grade heifer 

 calves. We make, on an average, about fifty pounds of butter 

 per week. 



In raising calves, after having tried the different plans sug- 

 gested, I prefer to take them from the cow the third day and 

 then give them new milk, warm from the cows, morning and 

 evening, in such quantities as is necessary to keep them growing 

 well, until they are ten to twelve Aveeks old, and then put them to 

 pasture. The first Avinter, feed tiiem well on good hay and a peck 

 of ruta bagas per day. Put them to the bull at fifteen months old. 

 My stock consists of one bull, twenty-four cows, heifers and 

 calves. 



I have a small flock of sheep, — of the O.xford Down breed, — 

 consisting of one ram and sixty ewes and lambs. I consider that 

 I can keep a flock of two hundred and fifty sheep, on a farm like 

 this, to advantage ; and I Avould here urge upon the farmers of 

 our county to use all their influence, at our next session of the 



