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laid 111 cement, and sitnated in a basement room or cellar, 

 which I have built of stone and brick, under the north east 

 end of the L part of the house, twenty feet square. lit this 

 room I have a sink and copper boiler, sei for scalding cans and 

 milk vessels, into both of which the water is drawn by a fau- 

 set. Water is kept continually running into the brick trough 

 at one end and out of the other, and the cans when filled with 

 milk, are set into this trough of water, to preserve an ■equal 

 temperature, and this keeps the milk sweet a longer time than 

 any other way with which I am acquainted. 



The water which supplies the milk cellar is taken from a 

 well dug in the pasture opposite my house, and from which 

 there is about ten feet fall. I have laid seventy-four rods of 

 under-drains with stone, fer the purpose of conducting off the 

 surplus water from a portion of my or<;hard, garden, yard-s and 

 troughs afore mentioned. 



When I purchased the farm, Oct. 9, 1849, I bought all the 

 hay in the barns, except two thousand fifty pounds. It was 

 estimated by measure, allowing five hundred and twenty-five 

 cubic feet for a ton, amouiiiing to nearly 33 tons. The men 

 employed or the farm were of the opinion that not more than 

 six tons had been consumed on the farm of that year's produce, 

 so that the amount of hay cut did not exceed forty tons. Four 

 'Oxen and one horse were pu> on the farm Feb, 1, 1850, and 

 twelve cows and another horse JMarch 11, and this stock con- 

 sumed all the hay, except four tons, before July 1, the oxen and 

 horse being kept up to hay all the time, 



I have bought the manure made at the Eagle House stable, 

 an Haverhill, for the two years past, and paid iwo hundred 

 and twenty dollars per year, and the quantity has averaged 

 about seventy-five cords a year. Twenty-five cords of this 

 manure I spread upon the mowing land in the spring of 1850; 

 and I believe it increased the quantity of hay that season 

 ■snore than one third. I planted about eleven acres, viz : six 

 to Indian corn, three to broom corn, one to potatoes, one half 

 an acre of sowed corn for fodder, and one half an acre t3 .car- 

 rots and other vegetables ; the whole of which was upon J,and 

 .liowed to oats the year previous, without grass scyd. The 



