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barn-yarJ, during the summer months, I cart out in the month of 

 November, and lay it in large heaps. In the spring I cart out from 

 my hog-yard all the manure to the same heaps taken from my 

 barn-yard ; I then have it all thrown over and mixed together ; 

 it is then prepared for the hill. I then put a large iron shovel full 

 in a hill ; and in this way, with a common season, I have a good 

 crop of corn, generally from forty to fifty bushels to the acre. 



Making Manure. I cart into my barn-yard a quantity of green 

 sods, such as I get from the sides of the road, and muck taken 

 from low wet places, this, together with what my cattle make during 

 the summer months, is about forty loads. I also cart of the same 

 material into my hog-yard at several different times, so as io enable 

 my hogs to have a fresh supply of earth. My hog-yard ig so con- 

 structed as to receive all the manure from my horses, and with the 

 aid of ray hogs I am able to take from the hog-yard about fifty loads 

 in a year. 



Grass Land. I have a variety of this kind of land. On ray 

 plough-land I generally get, three or four of the first seasons after 

 sowing, from one and a half to two tons to the acre. It is generally 

 ploughed once in about seven or eight years. I have not been in 

 the habit of giving this kind of land a top-dressing. The last year, 

 on about three acres, I spread thirty loads of manure from my barn- 

 yard, and I was satisfied that it very much increased the crop of 

 grass the present season. I have for a number of years put a top- 

 dressing, composed of rich soil, wash, &c., on a number of acres 

 not capable of being ploughed, and increased not only the quantity 

 but also the quality. I think there is double the quantity of hay 

 cut on my farm now that there was ten years ago. 



Pasturing. This kind of land is generally cold, flat and much 

 inclined to bushes. The improvement on this kind of land has 

 principally been confined to about ten acres, Vv^ith the exception of 

 cutting bushes on the remainder. This ten acres, eight yeara 

 since, would not yield feed sufficient to keep two cows through the 

 season. It was principally covered with killamb, blue flag, &lc. 

 I have ploughed it, and part of it is left in ridges with ditches suffi- 

 cient to drain it. The last season, according to the best of my 

 judgment, without weight and measure, eleven tons of the first 

 quality of English hay, about ninety bushels of corn, and about one 

 hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes were taken from it — which. 



