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years past I have not succeeded owing as 1 suppose to 

 deficiency of speargrass, they improved as fast as ex- 

 pected until the second cut of clover, which caused a 

 frothing from the mouth and they w^ould scarcely eat 

 sufficient to keep them alive. The economy of feeding 

 in this way, has not been exaggerated by reputable 

 European writers, in this I think 1 cannot be mistaken, 

 as correct accounts are kept for every field, and trans- 

 action of my hxYxn. 



One man and a boy of tweh'e years old feeds the 

 above, together with six liorses and three milch cows, 

 one bull and a large ox that has grain, and where the 

 grass is good the work is not hard; the manure is worth 

 more than their labour, and although Dr. Anderson's 

 mode of making hay under cover, may be rather visi- 

 onary on an extensive scale, here it may be beneficially 

 practised, and not a fork-full lost by over feeding. 



Last spring 1 planted ten acres of Indian corn, the 

 rows eight feet three inches distant, hills or rather clus- 

 ters at eighteen inches on the rows; and but three plants 

 suffered to grow in each. Between the corn, two rows of 

 potatoes unplanted two feet three inches apart; eight acres 

 were dunged on the sod mostly clover, the other two 

 spread with tolerable rich mould; produce 430 3-4 bush- 

 elscorn,and 848 bushels of potatoes. This productthough 

 not contemptable was far below my expectation, and can 

 be accounted; for, the plan was novel to iny ploughman, 

 and I could be but little with him, a great deal of the corn 

 was removed after up, to make room for the plough, 

 much left standing with too little room, to the great injury 

 of both crops, and either from the backwardness of the 

 s^eason or some other cause a consideral:)le quantity re- 



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