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dallars; -when Mr. Bell objected to the price as too high, the Quaker 

 replied, " She will give thee a bushel of milk a day.'' Mr. Bell 

 has found this to be true, and he says, that in two years past her 

 milk has been worth to him about five hundred dollars. The accom- 

 modation for the cattle in stables were examined and highly approv- 

 ed. In each stall a chain for the neck of the cow has a ring, which 

 traverses freely on an upright on the left side of the stall, so that the 

 cow has perfect freedom in all the movements of her head. These 

 stalls were all filled with fresh barley stalks, ready for the repast of 

 the cows, which are always placed here during the night. Mr. Bell 

 is a thorough manager of manures, nothing is lost. 



Your committee examined an eight acre lot of rye. This field had 

 lain fallow, and Mr. Bell had put upon it nearly one hundred loads 

 per acre of decomposed vegetable matter, and soil from a pond which 

 was then dry. He plowed it in deep with two yoke of oxen. He 

 sowed it last fall with about two bushels of rye, and one peck of 

 timothy; and in March last he sowed also on it a peck of clover 

 seed per acre. This crop appered to be a very good one, the clover 

 and timothy are growing well, and the stalks of the rye are large. 

 It was suggested by Mr. Bell, that the stalks seemed not to have suf- 

 ficient strength, perhaps wanting more of the silex. The chairman 

 thought that lime would have rendered the stalks stronger. 



Mr. Bell has thrge yoke of working oxen, employs on an average 

 six good men, and six horses. He pays a man one dollar an acre 

 for mowing, and half a dollar for cradling. These men find themselves. 

 He gives his cows in the stable, in winter, four quarts of Indian 

 meal, one peck of ship stuff, mixed with an half bushel of cut hay, 

 all mixed with water, and a little salt per day. This quantity is di- 

 vided into two meals for each cow. When hay is scarce, he uses 

 brewers' grains, which are far superior to swill. These grains cost 

 him six cents a bushel and two more to get them on his farm. He 

 presents in all his agricultural labors, an example of cheerful, intel- 

 ligent, neat and happy farming. 



Your committee were hospitably received ty Mr. Bell and CoL 

 Morris, the proprietor of this fine large farm. 



They then proceeded to the farm of Gouverneur Morris, which con- 

 tains fourteen hundred acres. They found the landlord engaged 

 ■with his men in the multiplied labors of his spacious fields. Here 

 ■we saw his vegetable garden of sixty acres, covered with every va- 



