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ON FARMS. 



quantity of milk. I averaged from twenty to twenty-five 

 cows in milk, summer and winter. Most of the calves were 

 sold when three or four days old. The principal part of the 

 milk is sent to Haverhill every morning, and delivered to cus- 

 tomers at four cents per quart, from April first to Oct. 1st, and 

 from then to April 1st, at five cents per quart ; the remainder 

 is made into butter and cheese for the family's use. My cows 

 are principally of the native breed ; those that calve in spring 

 and summer, give on an average, four and a half quarts of 

 milk per day for the year, and those that calve in October and 

 November, average five and a half quarts per day. Their milk 

 is increased by going from hay to grass in spring ; the others 

 diminished by going from grass to hay in the fall. 



1 have raised more than thirteen hundred bushels of grain 

 this year, viz : ten and two sixteenth bushels of wheat, twelve 

 and a half bushels of barley, two hundred and fifty-two and a 

 half bushels of oats, two hundred and fifty-six and three quar- 

 ters bushels of rye. One acre on home lot produced thirty- 

 eight and a half bushels ; three hundred and thirty bushels of 

 broom seed by estimation, worth as much per bushel for cat- 

 tle and swine as oats. Pomeroy corn on home lot four hun- 

 dred and sixteen baskets, the average weight, forty-three 

 pounds per basket, same kind on the island, fifty-six baskets, 

 weight forty-three pounds per basket. Whitman corn on the is- 

 land, one hundred and six baskets, weight forty-one pounds per 

 basket. Canada corn on the island, three hundred and eighty- 

 four baskets, weight forty-six and a half pounds per basket. 

 Each kind was measured in the same baskets. I shelled two 

 baskets of the Canada corn which made one bushel and five 

 and a half quarts. Allowing eighty pounds of ears for one 

 bushel of shelled corn, I shall have five hundred and thirty- 

 one and eighteen eightieths bushels, and forty-six baskets of small 

 corn. The Canada corn yielded much the best according to 

 the treatment, and was fit to harvest two weeks earlier than 

 the other varieties. 



My broom corn was a fair crop, but was injured somewhat 

 by the frost the morning of the 25th of September. I think 

 the yield of the five and a half acres will be full three thous- 



