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MR. BARTLETS FARM. 



The Farm in Methuen belonging to William Bartlet, Esq. has 

 been under my direction five years ; Mr. Bartlet has all the in- 

 come ffom said farm, and pays all the expenses. 



Said farm contams about two hundred acres of land, and is di- 

 vided into twenty lots, all which are fenced with a substantial 

 stone wall; 13 of the lots have been cultivated, and have pro- 

 duced wheat, rye, oats, tiax, Indian corn, potatoes, English and 

 Swedish turnips, white beans, timothy, herds-grass and clover 

 hay ; 8 lots are at present in grass for mowing ; 5 lots for pas- 

 turing ; one lot is woodland and pasture for young cattle ; one 

 lot is an orchard of apple trees, in good bearing; and 5 lots are 

 under culture for corn, oats, potatoes, English and Swedish tur- 

 nips, and winter rye, with a part of some lots for flax and white 

 beans ; besides a garden of vegetables for summer and winter 

 use for the family. 



The system of rotation of crops is five years. 



The quantity of manure made upon the farm in a year is 

 about 200 ox cart loads, of 40 bushels each : this manure is 

 made by the neat cattle and swine — about 60 loads by the 

 swine : the cattle yard is cleaned up every morning, and the 

 manure put into a heap under cover from the sun and rain. 

 The swine have the shavings of the fields and brooks, the po- 

 mace of the apples, the weeds and other materials thrown to 

 them during the summer and autumn, and are kept in their in- 

 closure all the time, and in the spring the yard is cleared. — 

 The neat cattle are kept In the barn-yards all the night in the 

 summer season ; and in the barns and yards all the winter sea- 

 son ; the water for their dhnk being brought into the yards by 

 an aqueduct. 



About 5 tons of ground Plaster of Paris for each year, have 

 been used for several years past, as a manure upon the grass 

 land, and the corn and grain for sowing have been mixed with it. 



The product of the farm some years has been greater than 

 others, but it produced in 1821 the following articles : 



35 barrels cider, 600 bushels corn, 700 bushels potatoes, 40 

 bushels English turnips, 4^ bushels white beans, 475 lbs. flax? 



