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lars for labor, sixteen hundred dollars for manure, and in the 

 result we see what can be done by untiling and well directed 

 industry. 



EZRA KENDALL. 



For Committee. 



Abel F. Adams's Statement. 

 Gentlemen. The Farm which I offer for your inspection 

 I purchased in 1830. It contains about 100 acres, and is divid- 

 ed the present year, by estimation, as follows, viz : Woodland 

 16 acres, Pasture 30 acres, Mowing 38 acres, Corn 5 acres, 

 Potatoes, Corn Fodder and Garden vegetables 2 acres, Rye 

 5 1-2 acres, Oats 2 1-2 acres. Some of the land used for 

 mowing is dry, and has suffered severely the three last seasons 

 with droughth. My pasture land has nearly all been ploughed 

 and tilled, which I consider the best way of subduing bushes, 

 where the land will admit of the plow. Where the sod is 

 very tough, I have generally planted potatoes the first year, 

 corn the second year, then follow with oats and stock down 

 to grass. I have sometimes improved pasture land by plow- 

 ing in summer, applying a few loads of compost, sowing Rye 

 and grass seed in September, and let the cattle have the whole. 

 The Rye produces abundance of feed the next season, and on 

 light land 1 think is very profitable, I usually plow from two 

 to five acres of my mowing ground immediately after haying, 

 sow rye upon the furrow in September, and usually have a 

 fair crop. Last year I obtained 29 bushels per acre of the 

 white rye, (without manure,) on land that had been mowed 

 eight years. In the spring I plow in the stubble with the 

 Michigan plow, 7 inches deep for corn. If the land is light 

 and warm, I prefer to spread the manure (in compost) and 

 harrow it in. If the land is wet and cold, I prefer to manure 

 it in the hill. My crops of corn are not as large as I some- 

 times see reported, but I think I can improve my farm more 

 by raising 100 bushels corn on two acres, rather than by try- 

 ing to raise that amount upon one acre. For potatoes I plow 



