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FARMS 



improvements upon my dwelling since, and hav^ 

 brought it, both in size and convenience, into a respec- 

 table farmer's establishment ; and I take especial care 

 to keep it properly covered with paint. I have also 

 erected a barn fifty-eight feet long, and thirty feet broad, 

 which is furnished with a cellar, and supplied with a 

 well of pure water. I have also erected out-houses, 

 all that are required for the convenience of a well 

 regulated farm. I now keep a horse and nine cows, 

 for which I have a large supply of hay. For the last 

 ten years my average yield of rye and corn has been 

 200 bushels per annum, the larger part being of the 

 latter grain. My root crops, consisting entirely of 

 potatoes and turnips, have been from 75 to 100 bushels 

 during the same time. I am now making arrangements 

 to extend my root cultivation, both in variety and 

 amount. 



I have been in the way of seeding down my moist 

 lands in the autumn, the last of September or the first 

 of October, and of seeding down my dry fields in the 

 spring. I always sow clover, timothy, and redtop ; I 

 put upon the acre, about eight quarts of timothy, an 

 equal amount of redtop, and six pounds of clover. As 

 far as I can, I top-dress my mowing lands ; and the 

 best time to apply the dressing (which should be 

 thoroughly pulverized) is in early June, when the grass 

 has started and is ready to protect the application from 

 the intenser rays of the sun, until it shall become 

 decomposed and amalgamated with the soil. I put upon 

 my tillage land fifteen loads of green manure to the 

 acre, and on planted fields, a shovel fidl of composted 

 manure in each hill. I havei frequently top-dressed 



