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them green for fodder, rather than let them ripen for grain, because 

 the fodder is better adapted to our use. We have about one hun- 

 dred and fifty acres of land, divided into three farms of fifty acres 

 each. It was nearly all in a slate of nature when we commenced 

 operating upon it, and most of it in the hiirdest and roughest state. 

 The farm connected with the Theological Seminary was the first 

 commenced, and has been the longest in a course of improvement. 

 The farm connected with the commons of the Classical School was 

 the next in order, and is next in the course of improvement. The 

 farm connected with the commons of the English School has been 

 but recently commenced, and of course is in the state of least im- 

 provement. We do not calculate to have any pasture land, proper- 

 ly so called, in these farms ; but to plough the whole over and over 

 by turns, or parts, as the case requires ; — to keep the cows in the 

 barns, and cut green fodder for them till the fall of the year, when 

 they are turned out to the fail feed. We have a pasture at a dis- 

 tance of about fifty acres, where we turn off the cows that are dry in 

 the summer, and also the oxen when not at work on the farms. As 

 to the product of our farms we can say nothing extraordinary ; we 

 have but just made a beginning, even with the farm which has been 

 ]on2;est in a course of improvement ; but we have accomplished 

 enough to encourage us to persevere, and have no doubt that great 

 advances may be made with judicious cultivation. In respect to 

 one of the farms we have done buying manure; we make a very good 

 supply ; and the same is nearly true in respect to the second ; and 

 the progress of iinprovement is in an encouraging course, and with 

 comparatively small expenditures. A summary of the stock, crops, 

 &c., of the three farms, is as follows, viz : — 



Horses, -------3 



Oxen, ------- 6 



Cows, 34 



Hogs, — fat, — weighing from 300 to 400 each, 14 

 Pigs, — stores, - - - - - - 11 



English Hay, including oats cut for winter fodder, 



besides green fodder for cows in summer, 106 tons. 

 Fresh Meadow Hay, 6 tons. 



