Profit of Soiling Cattle, ' 321 



Amount brought forward, S 3580 61 

 the farmer in the practice of leaving his stalks 

 in the field, and entangling his plough and 

 horses among them in the spring, risking his 

 shins at every step, would laugh at seeing 

 them estimated in a crop. I find them cheap 

 and excellent litter for the yards, they are with 

 the straw not consumed by the catde, charged 

 together with raking woods, and hauling 

 leaves every year to my manure account.- — 

 Price of stalks at three dollars per ton, - 57 00 



Barley straw and chaff, valued at the cost 

 of threshing and cleaning the grain, - 27 81 



Wheat straw and chaff, valued in the same 

 way, 37 12 



Dollars, JS 3702 54 



This produce has not been accumulated by a system 

 free from errors and misfortunes : a large share of both 

 has occurred very injurious to the crops, which will be 

 explained, when I communicate the result of my corn 

 and potatoe patch. 



The tract 106 acres 85 in grass and under tillage ; the 

 residue woods, roads, yards and garden : had those 85 

 acres been in grass no better or thicker set, they would 

 have been barely sufficient to pasture the stock, and tak- 

 ing into consideration the forepart of the season, I doubt 

 whether under the very best management they would 

 have been enough. One acre of good land well set with 

 grass, is considered sufficient for an ox; but grounds sub- 

 ject to the plough, are rarely returned well set with artifi- 

 cial grasses, and are seldom rich enough to get quickly 



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