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Summer Apples 

 Winter Apples 

 Pork - - - 

 Pumpkins - - 



- 130 do. 



- - 600 do. 



- - 2000 lbs. 



- - 2 tons 



150 do. 



600 do. 

 2U0O lbs. 

 4 tons. 



He kept no particular account of his dairy ; but his cows, six 

 in number, had done well. 



Col. Putnam's mode of making manure, he states as follows : 



" In the autumn I clear the barn yard, and carry the manure 

 into large and compact heaps, in the fields where it is intended 

 to be used. The yard is then covered with turf, loam, or pond 

 mud, and such other materials as are found on the farm, suited 

 to making m inure. These, together with the droppings of the 

 cattle in the winter and summer, and the relics of their fodder, 

 are mixed together in the course of the summer, and made into 

 fine manure. This I use principally on my grass land ; spread- 

 ing it from the cart, after the grass is grown several mches. 



" I have a cellar under my barn, in which the winter dung 

 and urine of the cattle are collected. By mixing with these, in 

 the cellar, meadow turf [or sod] coarse hay and corn stalks, the 

 quantity is much increased. I also carry large quantities of ma- 

 terials to my hog pen, which is so situated as to be kept moist; 

 and from the industry of the swine in preparing this manure for 

 the field, I find more benefit from them than in any other way." 



His usual stock consists of six oxen, eight cows, one bull, 

 two horses, and several extra cattle to be sold in the spring, 

 and from six to twenty swine. 



Col. Putnam closes his statement as follows : 



" Some of my [wet] meadows have been converted into excel- 

 lent English mowing grounds, by carrying about six inches of 

 gravel on to them in the winter. In the first place I divide a 

 meadow into lots about three rods wide, by ditches— turning 

 the turf bottom upwards — and taking care to have the middle 

 of the lots the highest, so that they may be a little sloping to- 

 wards the ditches. Plough the turf and gravel together, in the 

 spring, and plant it one season with potatoes : the crop will be 

 as good as in common fields. Then carry on one or two inches 

 of top soil, and a good coating of manure ; and from land thus 

 prepared, I have obtained my largest and best crops of English 

 hay." 



