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of my previous expenses in managing my farm, as I have not been 

 accustomed to keep an account. 



I came on the farm in 1819. It then contained about fifty acres ; 

 and kept six head of cattle. All the addition that has since been 

 made to the farm, was pasture land. 



For planting, I usually plough soon after haying, and in the 

 spring spread from thirty to forty loads of compost manure and 

 plough it in. I have, to some extent, practised ploughing grass 

 ground .in the spring, and harrow in the manure, but prefer fall 

 ploughing. I plant one year, and sow it down (usually,) with oats 

 and hay seed. As to rye, we have not been accustomed to raise it, 

 as it has been considered an uncertain crop. 



I top dress my land that is too wet for cultivation. I have pur- 

 chased considerable manure, and have recently purchased a mea- 

 dow about one and a quarter mile from home, from whence I have 

 hauled considerable peat mud. I have to some extent used dry and 

 leached ashes ; sometimes they have done well, at other times very 

 little or no benefit has been derived from them. I have also used 

 gypsum, and it has done well, especially on pasture land. 



CHRISTOPHER HOW. 



Methuen, Nov. 3d, 1845. 



DANIEL P. king's STATEMENT. 



To the CommitUe on Farms : 



Gentlemen, — ^Before the first of July I had no intention of invit- 

 ing you to visit my farm, but then learning that there had been no 

 entry which would secure a report from you, I was unwilling that 

 the Society should lose the benefit of a report, for I think farmers 

 derive their best hints from the observations and experience of prac- 

 tical farmers embodied in such reports. 



I am far from thinking my management the best, or among the 

 best, but as it has fully answered my reasonable expectations, I will 

 as briefly as possible, state it. 



My farm has great variety of soil, but the cultivated lands are 

 mostly a gravelly loam. I have about fifty acres in mowing, tillage 

 and orchard, twenty-five acres in meadow, one fourth of which is 

 peat, seventy-five acres in pasture, and several tracts of wood land. 



