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cellar, and twenty cords of stable manure, which I think, with 

 what I shall make from my stock in future, will enable mc to 

 keep the farm in a gradual state of improvement, without pur- 

 chasing any more manure. 



The seven acres on the island, where wood was cut, was 

 covered with a heavy crop of wild grass, brush and sprouts, 

 from the stumps, when I purchased the farm. In May and 

 June, 1850, I cut and mowed the same, and raked into win- 

 rows with a horse rake, made for the purpose, and burnt it on 

 the ground ; then sowed grass seed, and harrowed thoroughly. 

 TImt year I cut in August, a heavy burden of wild grass and 

 weeds, about one half of which was unfit for cattle to eat ; 

 this year I have moved most of it twice, and think it yielded 

 three tons per acre, of good quality stock hay ; much of the 

 first crop was six feet high, and resembled blue-joint, but I 

 think it is a different grass. I have given it the name of is- 

 land blue top. I also mowed eight acres of clover on the is- 

 land where the spring rye grew, and the ashes were spread the 

 last year, which I think yielded one and a half tons per acre. 

 The s3cond crop would have yielded three quarters of a ton 

 per acre, most of which was ploughed in and sowed with rye 

 and wheat, as before stated. 



On the home lot, which is the forty-three and a half acre 

 lot, where the dwelling house stands, I mowed thirty acres, 

 making forty-five acres in all ; two acres of this lot have been 

 taken for, and is occupied by a Railroad ; three acres are wood 

 land on the river bank, one and a half acres occupied with the 

 buildings, yards, and road to the river, the residue is in crops 

 before specified. The corn fodder was grown on land taken 

 from the pasture, and was fed to my cows in August and Sep- 

 tember. I measured my hay accurately the first day of this 

 month, and allowing five hundred twenty-five cubic feet for a 

 ton, I cut this year one hundred and twelve and a half tons, 

 besides some thirty tons of straw and corn fodder. 



My new milch cows are fed with four quarts broom seed, 

 meal and shorts per day, in winter with cut hay. I have here- 

 tofore fed pretty extensively with carrots, but from careful ex- 

 periments last winter, I am satisfied they do not increase the 



