sow from two to three acres, the remainder I use for mowing. I 

 lalso mow twenty-two acres of fresh and salt meadow. I have about 

 ton acres of orcharding, exclusive of those trees which are by the 

 fences, that inclose my tillage land, the most of which I have raised 

 from the seed, and I use the land where my trees are, chiefly for 

 pasturage for sheop and horses. I have eleven acres of wood land, 

 and thirty-three of pasture land. I havo fifty pear trees, the most of 

 which I havo raised from the seed and ingrafted them with various 

 kinds of summer, fall, and winter fruit, and all of them are in a 

 bearing condition ; I also have thirty peach trees, the average crop 

 of which is ten bushels. — The stock, which I keep, consists of from 

 sixteen to eighteen head of neat cattle. I have seven cows, four 

 oxen, and five young cattle, two horses, from twelve to fifteen sheep, 

 and from four to seven swine. 



Manner of making Manure. During the winter months, I 

 litter my barn yard with meadow hay, where I yard my stock, 

 which remains there until about the last of November, occasionally 

 replenishing it with meadow mud and stufT, which is gathered from 

 under fences and other places on the farm. I carry into my hog 

 yards wash from the road, meadow mud, and the droppings from 

 my horses, that th« same may be mingled together by them and re- 

 cieve their fertilizing properties. The quantity of manure which I 

 make in this manner is about ono hundred and fifty common carts 

 full, sixty of which are made in winter, about fifty are made during 

 the summer and fall months in my barn yard, and about forty which 

 I take from my hog yards annually. 



Manner of preparing Mr Tillage Land. I plough up my 

 grass land in the spring, but a short time before I want to plant it, 

 then harrow and furrow it about three feet a part, and manure it in 

 the hills with hog and sheep manure for potatoes ; — the next year I 

 plant it with corn. I spread from twenty to twenty-five common 

 carts full of my winter manure on an acre, then plough and harrow 

 it, and furrow it about four feet a part, and put from ten to twelve 

 common carts full of my summer manure, which is placed on the 

 ground the autumn before in the hills ; the next year the land is in 

 good order to lay down to grass. Then I give it a small dressing 

 with fine manure, plough it, and sow it with wheat, or oats, and 

 herds grass seed only. In this manner, I go over with my field 

 land once in four or five years ; except a few acres, which is of a 

 heavier soil. I usually top diess, with fine manure and materials 

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