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count is most useful to combine with horse manure. It cannot 

 be recommended too highly to all who have heavy lands to 

 cultivate. 



The sales from the farm during the last year have been : — 



Milk, 00,912 quarts. 



Apples, 400 barrels. 



Cider, 75 barrels. 



Vinegar, 200 gallons. 



Kuta baga, 130 barrels. 



Potatoes, 50 barrels. 



Barley, 200 bushels. 



Pork (2000 pounds now on hand), 1500 pounds. 



Pigs, 12. 



Calves, 30. 



Heifers (fat), 2. 



Cows, 20. 



Bulls for breeding, 2 



Colts, 2. 



The labor is performed by a foreman, milkman and eight 

 laborers in summer, and three in winter. 



In addition to the milk sold, enough is reserved for the 

 families of myself and my foreman, and to make butter for my 

 own family nine months in the year. 



The food for the milch cows is English hay, usually chopped 

 fine and mixed with meal or shorts three times a day, and 

 mangel wurzel, about half a bushel, once a day. A portion of 

 the time they are fed on corn fodder, chopped and mixed 

 with cob-meal. During nearly the whole winter all the food, 

 with the exception of the roots, is prepared by steam, for 

 which purpose I have a moveable tank in each barn, connected 

 by long pipes to a steam boiler. The young cattle and dry 

 cows are fed on straw, black grass and corn fodder, wdth very 

 little corn meal, also prepared by steam, and a peck of ruta 

 bagas per day. 



I have given a hasty sketch of the farm and its operations, 



