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Three fields of wheat having been ready to harvest for some days, 

 we commenced cradling the next week. We cut 31 acres, most of 

 which stood npright, and which has yielded an average of 25 bush- 

 els and 2 pecks per acre, weighing 63 lbs. to the bushel; gathered in 

 good prder, and housed upon each of the fields last mentioned. There 

 had been applied 60 bushels of shell lime to the acre, at the time of 

 seeding: the previous crop of two of these fields, was potatoes, and 

 that of the third wheat 



The clover and timothy grass grew finely after the wheat being 

 off, each field having had 1 peck of timothy seed, and 12 lbs of 

 clover seed sowed to the acre the fall previous; it was sowed length- 

 wise and crosswise, and promises a handsome burden next harvest. 



The rye on field of 7 acres was cut and fed while green to milch 

 cows, except a quarter of an acre left to ripen for seed, and yielded 

 10 bushels. 



Fifteen acres was sown with buckwheat, llth July, after the hay 

 had been taken off, the sod was plowed, harrowed and rolled, and 

 no manure applied; ripened and cut 19th October, and threshed as 

 fast as gathered; the nett yield was 165 bushels. 



I intended this season as heretofore to plant with corn, all the 

 ■ground having grown buckwheat the previous crop, as I am satisfied 

 that buckwheat is a preventive of worms that materially injut'e 

 and destroy corn, and I think if farmers generally would drop 2 or 3 

 kernels of buckwheat in each hill where they plant corn, they never 

 would have occasion to re-plant on account of destruction made by 

 the grub or wire worm. 



DAVID S. MILLS. 



JAMES LEWIS' 



Mode of making Butter. 



My dairy consists of 16 cows of the common breed; the butter 

 which I sent to the fair of the American Institute, which took the 

 second premium, was made while the cows were fed on rowen, that 

 grew on natural meadow, a mixture of timothy, blue grass and clo- 

 ver, no feed or roots of any kind being used; the milk was strained 

 in ten quart pans in a cold cellar, and stood till thick for churning; 

 all of the milk being churned with a machine by a sheep. 



