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vines are all free from the slightest appearance of disease, manured 

 ■with barn yard manure. Sugar beets for cattle, produced last year 

 on an eighth of an acre, 150 bushels; melons, &c. 



The stock consists of two cows of the Ayrshire and Alderncy 

 breeds, and two pigs, a cross of the Chinese and Berkshire, the latter 

 six months old and very large. During the summer the cows are kept 

 in pasture, and occasionally fed with green oats, in winter with sugar 

 beets and hay. The Ayrshire cow has given for some time, thirty- 

 eight quarts of milk per day, milked three times; her average yield 

 from August 18th, to October 1st, 1845, was twenty-five quarts per 

 day. The yield of the Alderney, though not as large, is much the 

 richest. From the 22d of April, to October 1st, 1845, they gave 

 together 5,527 quarts, a portion of which w-as sold to the neighbors 

 and the remainder used at table, and made into butter. The amount 

 of butter made from January, 1845, to January, 1846, exclusive of 

 the milk and cream sold and used by the family, was 250 pounds. 

 The apartments for poultry .are well arranged; from 22 hens were 

 obtained in one year 2,&78 eggs. 



Mr. Smith has been very successful in the cutivation of Cape 

 Broccoli, having heads l?st fall the pulp of which measured two feet 

 seven inches in circumference. He prepares the ground entirely 

 ■with cow manure; sows the seed in May, and transplants the latter 

 part of August. 



Your committee were sliown an Isabella grape vine, said to be 

 25 years old, which previous to the present season, had ceased for 

 several years to bear fruit. By way of experiment, Mr. Smith had 

 a portioii of a dead horse that had floated ashore near by, carted up 

 to the grounds and buried near the vine, which is now covered with 

 clusters of fine grapes. To waste nothing which may be converted 

 into manure, is as he expresses it, the " great secret of profitable 

 farming." Considering that he employs the assistance of but one 

 man, every thing being conducted with such order and economy; 

 and that from less than three acres, he is enabled to supply a fami- 

 ly numbering thirteen persons with all the necessaries of life, your 

 committee deem him entitled to great commendation. The house is 

 located on rising ground, commanding a view of the surrounding 

 country of great beauty. 



After partaking of a liberal entertainment, your committee, at the 

 request of Mr. Smith, visited the farm of Mr. Jolm H. Smith, near 



