APPENDIX. Ill 



Sir : — Please fill the blanks with as much exactness as you can, and 

 favor me with your suggestions and remarks on such topics as you may 

 deem useful ; for example ; 



1. What improvement have you made in building; in cultivation ; in 



draining; in irrigation; in clearing land; in live stock; in feed- 

 ing animals; in forwarding seeds ; in raising forest trees; or in 

 any other matter ? 



2. What breed of cattle do you raise? What breed do you prefer for 



labor, stall, or dairy 1 



3. What experiments have you made in the application of manures ? 



What are the effects on your farm of Lime, or Gypsum ; and 

 how used ? 



4. What large or extraordinary crops of any kind have you raised; 



and how cultivated ? 



5. What remarkable beef cattle or milch cows have you owned ; or 



known in your neighborhood I Please to give an account of 

 them. 



6. What agricultural experiments of any kind have you made, the 



knowledge of which, whether successful or unsuccessful, would 

 be useful ? 



7. What do you deem the most profitable articles of cultivation ? 



8. What is the general disposition of the products of your farm ? 



Be kind enough to let me hear from you ; and when this table is 

 filled out at the close of the season, please enclose it with your remarks, 

 which I hope for at large, and forward it to my address bi/ private con- 

 veyance, to the ofiice of the Secretary of State, Boston. 



HENRY COLMAN, 



Commissioner for Agricultural Survey. 

 July, 1837. 



