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mowing fields. In the winter they have generally had ten 

 bushels of beets, with what English hay, black grass and 

 rowen they would eat. The roots were fed out to them once 

 a day only — mornings. 



As to the farm buildings, I am not aware that there is 

 anything peculiar about them worthy of notice, except that 

 the cow stancheons are in a long, low-roofed L, running out 

 from the barn. This I regard as a very good feature, as the 

 hay, which is wholly kept in the main body of the barn, is 

 by this means preserved from the deterioration, which the 

 steam and heat of the cows cause. 



The products of the farm for the past season, from April 1 

 to Nov. 1, 1864, are as follows: 

 Milk, 25,714 quarts, sold in the city at an average 



of 7 cents per quart, $1,799.98 



Cabbages, and cabbage plants sold, as pr. sales-book, 1,500.00 

 Onions, 2,500 bushels, at $1.75 per bushel, 4,375.00 



Carrots, 20 tons, at $15.00 per ton, 300.00 



Mangel Wurzel, 10 tons, 150.00 



Flat Turnips, 500 bushels, at 25 cts. per bushel, 125.00 



Ruta Bagas, 200 bushels, at 60 cts. per bushel, 120.00 



Early Potatoes, Tomatoes, Lettuce and other garden 



sauce, as per sales-book, 2,202.51 



Squashes, 50.00 



English Hay, 80 tons, at ^30. 00 per ton, 2,400.00 



Salt Hay, 20 tons, at $17.00 per ton, 340.00 



Barley, 30 bushels, 45.00 



Wheat, 25 bushels, 56.25 



Rye, 20 bushels, 40.00 



Wheat Straw, 2 tons, 30.00 



Barley Straw, 2 tons, 30.00 



Apples, 15 barrels, 45.00 



Sales of Pork per year have been from seven to eight hun- 

 dred pounds. 



For seven months of the year I keep seven men and two 

 boys ; for the rest of the year, three men ; and during the 



