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the most intelligent and skilful farmers in the country and have been 

 kind enough to favor me with a full report of their farming opera- 

 tions, confirm this opinion of the value of apples by their own expe- 

 rience. They state that in fattening their usual amount of pork the 

 year before the last, by the use of one third of apples cooked with 

 their potatoes, they considered themselves as having saved $200 

 worth of Indian meal. 



The gentleman of whose farm I am now speaking, obtained two 

 years since, on a piece of land of 3i acres and 26 rods, at the rate 

 of 95 bushels of Indian corn to the acre. 



Farm V. This farm contains 100 acres, of which 50 are in 

 pasture ; 24 in wood ; 10 in salt marsh ; 10 in English mowing ; 

 4 in tillage ; 2 in wet meadow. Cows C ; oxen 4 ; swine 2 ; horses 

 4, kept mainly for the purpose of carting hay to market on com- 

 mission. 



Produce. English hay 12 tons ; salt hay 30 tons ; Indian corn 

 75 bushels ; barley 30 bs. ; oats 40 bs. ; beans 3 bs. ; potatoes 

 500 bs. ; beef sold $262 ; pork 500 lbs. ; butter 300 lbs. ; new 

 milk cheese 900 lbs. ; cider 26 barrels. ; winter apples 200 barrels ; 

 straw 2 tons ; corn fodder 2 tons ; pigs sold 3, at $3.25 — $9.75 ; 

 calves sold 5, at $7 — $35. 



The extraordinary crop of salt hay stated above, of which I have 

 unquestionable testimony, is to be attributed to superior management 

 of the salt marsh, and its particularly excellent character. It has 

 been carefully drained, so that the water is immediately, as the tide 

 falls, taken from its surface. It consists of a deep alluvion resting in 

 some parts upon a clayey substratum. 



Farm VI. This farm consists of 110 acres of which 30 are in 

 pasturage ; 20 in salt marsh ; 20 in wood ; and 7 waste ; leaving 33 

 in tillage and English mowing. Cows 5 ; oxen 4 ; horse 1 . 



Produce in 1S37. English hay 20 tons ; salt hay 15 tons ; fresh 

 meadow 2 tons ; Indian corn 300 bushels; barley 40 bs.; oats 20 bs.; 

 pease sold green 200 bs. ; beans 10 bs. ; potatoes 50 bs. ; onions 

 75 bs. ; carrots 10 bs. ; beets 30 bs. ; parsnips 6 bs. ; English 

 turnips 150 bs. ; pumpkins 50 cart loads ; squashes sold for $100 ; 

 beef fattened 3,000 lbs ; pork 1,500 lbs. ; butter 750 lbs. ; cider 



