REPORTS 01 FARMS. 



FARM OF MR. BELL. 



The farm occupied by Mr. Thomas Bell is situated in Morrisania, 

 aiear this city, and comprises about 400 acres, being a part of the 

 domain of William H. Morris, Esq. The present season, 100 acres 

 have been cropped with hay, 40 acres with Indian corn, 18 acres 

 with wheat, 12 acres with oats, 6 acres with rye, 5 acres with tur- 

 nips, 3 acres with potatoes, and 10 acres with corn, sown broadcast, 

 or in drills, for soiling; the remainder lying in pasture or fallow. 

 There are also on the place 25 acres of orchard, principally New- 

 town Pippin trees, from which were sold last year 400 barrels of 

 apples and 200 barrels of cider. 



The stock of the farm consists of 75 cows, 52 of which give milk, 

 two Durham bulls, 25 heifers, 6 working oxen, 6 horses for labor, 

 12 sheep of Bakewell or Leicester grade, and 50 or 60 hogs and 

 pigs. 



On the 16th day of July last, the field crops all looked well, 

 which was doubtless owing,,in a great measure, to superior manage- 

 ment. The wheat was in the act of harvesting, and bid fair to 

 yield 25 or 30 bushels to the acre. It was grown on land that had 

 remained in fallow for many years; that is, a scanty pasture, inter- 

 spersed with alders, dwarf cedars, wild grasses, &c. The ground 

 was plowed twice in the summer of 1846; and previous to sowing, 

 25 loads of compost, made of swale or pond mud, mixed and fer- 

 mented in the heap with barn-yard manure, were applied to each 

 acre. The field in which this wheat was grown, at present is in ex- 

 cellent condition for laying down to grass, or for the cultivation of 

 almost any kind of crop. 



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