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plough five acres of sward land on my home lot, and applied 

 forty cart loads of compost to the acre, made by mixing green 

 manure with an equal part of good loam, meaning always by 

 cart load, about 35 bushels. The land was thoroughly har- 

 rowed, and I sowed one peck of herds grass, and one bushel 

 of northern red top per acre, and brushed and rolled the same. 

 I think the product this year was full three tons per acre. The 

 first week in Oct. 1850, I took off a crop of corn from an acre 

 and a half of land adjoining the river, and ploughed in six 

 cords of horse manure, sowed one and a half bushels of rye 

 and sowed the same with grass seed. In September preced- 

 ing I ploughed sixteen acres of land on the island, turned un- 

 der all the grass that grew on the land, during the season, 

 and which would have made about eight or ten hundred 

 of hay to the acre. Two acres of this land was in the low 

 part before refered to, and had never been ploughed. I sowed 

 one acre of this low land with grass seed only, and the other 

 fifteen acres with rye only, giving it no further dressing. 



On the first day of April last, I commenced keeping a daily 

 account of my sales, expenditures and labor performed on the 

 farm, also the amount of farm produce of every description. 

 On the 24th of April, I sowed one bushel of the Black Sea 

 spring wheat, on two thirds of an acre of land, on the home 

 lot, where potatoes grew the year previous, and seeded the 

 same with red top and herds grass. On the same and the fol- 

 lowing day, I sowed twenty-four bushels of oats on eight 

 acres of land on the island, and two bushels of barley on about 

 three quarters of an acre, and seeded the same with ten pounds 

 of southern clover to the acre. This land was in corn, and 

 broom corn the year previous. From the 13th to the 16th of 

 May, I planted three and a half acres of corn, and one and a 

 half acre of potatoes on the home lot. One acre had been 

 planted with corn and potatoes for two years previous, and the 

 rest was in grass. I ploughed in twenty-five cart loads per 

 acre of green manure from the barn cellar — ploughing ten in- 

 ches deep — and put in the hills, six cart loads of manure to the 

 acre, the ground being furrowed three and a half feet apart 



