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continuing- this practice at least until the trees have attained a 

 ^ood size, and are in a good thriving and bearing state. 



For several years past, he has annually broken up three or 

 four acres of his pasture land, where principally covered with 

 small bushes and mos^, and planted the same with potatoes or 

 corn; and when laid down to grass found himself amply com- 

 pensated. 



It has been his practice to plough, in the warm weather in 

 August, the land intended to be })lanted tlie ensuing spnng ; at 

 which time it is cross-ploughed. By ploughing when the earth 

 is warm, he says the sod is better rotted, and more easily ren- 

 dered tit for tillage crops. Ploughing late in autumn he thinks 

 not advantageous. Thus cultivated one or two years, the land 

 will be in a good condition for English grain and grass. The 

 same land will need to be broken up again, as often as once in 

 six or seven years. 



'' The raising and curing English hay (he remarks) occupies 

 a large portion of our time ; and rewards our labour as well as 

 any thing that is done on the farm; and the object of cultivat- 

 ing other crops is, in a good degree, to prepare the land for this 

 most important crop. 



The produce of his farm, in 1821 and 1822, as near as he 

 could estimate the same, he states as follows : 



182! 



1822. 



