86 ONFARMS. 



JONAS holt's statement. 



To the Committee on Farms : 



Gentlemen, — Agreeably to your request, I take this opportu- 

 nity to inform you of the method of managing my farm. I keep a 

 hired man seven months, pay him thirteen dollars per month. I 

 keep one yoke of oxen, one horse, five cows, and have four young 

 cattle. 



I compost all my manure, mixing the manure from the horse sta- 

 ble, the cow yard and the hog pen, altogether, carry the manure out 

 into the field from these several places in the fall, heap it up and 

 cover the heap with meadow muck or loam. In the spring I take 

 what manure is made by the cattle and horse, carry it out into the 

 field, and mix it with the heap drawn out in the fall. Where it is 

 not too rough I spread my manure broadcast, but where the land is 

 very rough and stony I put it in the hill, but I prefer the broadcast 

 system where it is practicable. 



I planted one acre and a half of corn, mostly on very rough rocky 

 land, and harvested fifty-four bushels of corn from the same. My 

 potatoes have rotted somewhat, so that with the drought and the rot 

 I shall get but 224 bushels sound potatoes, from thirty-three bush- 

 els of seed, about half my usual crop. I have raised 50 bushels 

 French turnips, 40 bushels sugar beets, 5 bushels of onions, 6 do. 

 of white beans, 2 cart loads of pumpkins, some squashes, and a va- 

 riety of garden vegetables, such as round turnips, beans, cabbage, 

 &c. I cut about 20 tons of English hay and 4 tons of meadow ; 

 raised 42 bushels of oats from 3 bushels of seed. I sow about two 

 bushels of oats to the acre. Raised 21 bushels of barley on three 

 quarters of an acre. I had 6 bushels of pears from three small 

 trees ; sold 5 bushels, at one dollar per bushel ; of apples I had but 

 few, most of my trees have been set within a few yeai's. I had on- 

 ly 13 barrels of winter apples, mostly baldwins, which I sold at two 

 dollars per barrel, at home. 



I usually sell from three to six tons of hay in a year ; the aver- 

 age price for the last ten years has been a little over fifteen dollars, 

 at the barn. 



I have dug probably about one hundred loads of muck, this sum- 

 mer, to lie and freeze for next year's use. I have dug fifty rods of 

 ditch in the pasture, (since you last visited my farm,) thirty inches 



