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ing that has been very expensive, My house is probably more 

 than a hundred and twenty years old. I have repaired it at a 

 cost of a few hundred dollars ; put a cellar under my barn, 

 built an addition to the barn, and a number of small buildings. 



I have usually kept, for the last eight or ten years, one 

 horse, one yoke of oxen, from three to four cows, and some 

 young slock. 



I have made, for the last few years, from thirty to one hun- 

 dred cart loads of manure yearly. I have formerly used consid- 

 erable meadow mud, but I begin to think that it does not do 

 so well on our heavy, moist land, for a compost, as soil, or 

 something that is obtained from dry land ; yet I have no doubt 

 that it is the right thing for many kinds of land. The man- 

 ner in which I have applied manure, generally, is to spread 

 twenty loads to the acre, when I seed down with grass. I 

 have generally seeded down in the spring, and sowed oats or 

 barley, but sometimes have sowed my grain in the spring, and 

 ploughed in the stubble in September and sowed grass. When 

 my grain has a very heavy straw, and falls before it is ripe, 

 much of the grass that has been sown in spring, is destroyed ; 

 this is especially the case with oats. My corn I have always 

 manured in the hill, and spread all that remained after sowing 

 my grass and grain. My crops, the present year, are full mid- 

 dling, except the hay, in that I am cut short nearly one half — 

 certainly more than one third, on my ploughed lands. My 

 meadow grass was an average crop. I raised one hundred 

 bushels of corn on two and one-fourth acres of ground ; one 

 acre was grass land, ploughed the hist of November, the re- 

 mainder was planted with corn, the year before. The crop 

 on the part that was turned up last fall, was nearly one third 

 heavier than the former, which is not common on our land. 

 I can assign no reason for this, it being all manured alike, but 

 I think the dry weather must have affected the old ground 

 more sensibly. I do not recollect that my corn crop was ever 

 injured by drought before, but a part of my field, I think, was 

 this year. I raised seventy bushels of barley and oats on two 

 and one-fourth acres ; one acre of oats, forty bushels ; one and 

 one-fourth acres of barley, thirty bushels. My potatoes were 



