FARMS. 65 



I have raised very little stock during the last five years, though I 

 have now five very promising yearlings of my own raising. Ths 

 main objection to raising stock in my vicinity being the want of good 

 pastures. The produce of the farm, besides supporting the family, is 

 principally fed to cows and hogs. The amount of butter made lasfe 

 year was seven hundred and twenty-five pounds. One yoke of oxen 

 fattened and twenty-four hundred pounds of pork. I usually employ 

 a boy seven months in the year — besides myself — or a man half that 

 time. As to farming implements, I mean to keep along with the 

 times as near as the circumstances of a small farm will seem to au- 

 thorize. Going a little further in this matter within the last ten 

 years, I succeeded at last in getting three acres of grass cut at the 

 Tery moderate sum of fifteen dollars — five dollars per acre. 



I am not aware of much improvem.ent in the way of rail fences,, 

 unless it is in laying them up in snug piles or upon the barn beams 

 for scaffolding. 



One framed building has been added to the place witthin the last 

 five years, and paint and paper to the amount of some $80. The 

 paint wpon the house being yet good, it received last week a (X)vering 

 of oil, merely to preserve the paint and thus the timber. This is 

 mentioned only as an item in the "■ economy of farm management," 

 as the expense did not exceed five dollars, whereas a coat of paint 

 two years hence would have probably cost thirty. 



Some sixty or more young fruit trees about the buildings, of ditfe: -^ 

 ent kinds, merely for family use, constitute the orchard, except fifteen 

 or twenty older ones scattered upon the farm. 



The income of the farm, or the produce of the present year at the 

 market prices, -with the expenses, will stand, I sup])osc, nearly as. 

 follows : 



PRODUCTS. 



Hay, estimated at 18 tons, at $12 50 per ton, 

 330 bushels of ears of Indian corn, at 50 cents, 



4 tons of corn stover, at $5 per ton, 

 1200 pounds of husks, at 75 cents j>er cwt., 

 Broombrush from 3 acres, estimated at 1 ton, at 1 Oc 

 150 bushels broom-seed from 3 acres, at 2s., 

 3 acres of oats, estimated at 100 bushels, at 6,0c., 

 Oat straw from 3 acres, estimated at 2 tons, at §5, 

 40 bushels good Carter potatoes, at 75 cents, 

 20 bushels small, " at 25 cents, 



7 bushels early potatoes, at $1, 



8 bushels peach-blow potatoes, at 50 cents, 

 15 bushels buckwheat, at $1, 

 Green peas, sold 10 bushels, 



5 bushels of wheat, at $2, 

 Turnips, 30 bushels, at 2 shillings, 

 Rowen, pasturage, and fall feed, estimated at 

 10 barrels picked apples, at $1, 



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