vol/. 3t VXI. NO. 4:0- 



future to spread the muek on the top and harrow it 

 in as 1 do not approve of making so much of a n 

 as we must where the manure is put into the hill 

 on sward land. 



7 I mowed this year about thirtyfive acres of up- 

 land My hired man said he thought my grass 

 would averacre one and a half ton to the acre. The 

 upland I think, would not average that, but some 

 ofthe meadow would nearly double that. I shall 

 estimate my hav at seventyfive tons. 



8 I have but just begun to irrigate, but am pre- 

 paring by means of dams, to flow a considerable 

 part ol- my poor meadow land. When I have flow- 

 ed in the spring and fall and kept the water con- 

 fined till the sediment that washed from the road 



• was settled, it has brought in a belter quality ot 

 grass and increased the quantity very much. 



9 I have not manured land that I irrigated ; not 

 making so much manure as I want to apply to 

 ground that I plant, and not being able to buy, 1 

 have not applied much clear manure. As a top 

 dressing to my grass, I have put on in different 

 places a load of fresh horse manure and litter on to 

 mv meadow land, and the land has always produc- 

 ed rrood grass after such application. I plough the 

 soifatthesidesof the road, and sometimes mix a 

 little manure with it, and spread it on my meadow 

 land about twenty loads to the acre, and sow six 

 or eiffht quarts of grass seed to the acre, and take 

 a pair of horses that will walk quick with a sharp 

 harrow, and harrow the land when the frost is out 

 about an inch or two ; and I have in that way im- 

 proved some of my meadow land very much. 



10 I mow about twenty acres not suitable tor 

 the plough. Some of the hay is of a good quali- 

 ty, and the rest is a mixture of wild grass, buck 

 horn and poly pod. , • „j 



n My low peat lands that I have reclaimed, 

 where there have been bushes or small trees, [ have 

 taken them out by the roots, which is done compar- 

 atively easy, and where there have been hassocks 

 I have taken them off with a bogging hoe and have 

 carted or sledded my loam that I had piled up the 

 summer before upon the meadow whe.. it was fro- 

 zen hard, and spread from twenty to thirty loads o 

 the acre ; and in the spring when there was a light 

 snow, I have sowed my seeds, and when the frost 

 '>has got out of the top of the meadow I have har- 

 rowed it thoroughly, and in that way have obtained 

 pretty good grass. I think it bad policy to carry 

 gravel on ou? meadow land. Perhaps a better way 

 to reclaim our meadows that are loo soft to plough 

 in summer, is to go on in the spring when the fros 

 is out about four inches, with a plough ground 

 sharp, and plough and plant '° P°'^\°<'\''"'' °' ''l? \ 

 years, until the wild grass is killed out, and stock 

 it down; in that case we should have good hay the 



first crop. !_■ I 



12 I planted three acres to corn this year; 1 

 carted my green manure, say twenty loads to t^e 

 acre and left it in small heaps on my grass laiid a 

 day or two before I wanted to plant, and spread no 

 faster than we ploughed. After ploughing rolled 

 it down with a light roller, then harrowed it length- 

 wise, then furrowed it ; and on two acres I put a 

 bout twelve loads per acre of meadow mud that 

 was thrown into the hog-yard in the tall and spring. 

 One acre I did not manure in the hill but put ashes 

 about the corn after it came up. 



The kind of seed I brought from latitude 45, nine 

 years since ; and it is from ten to twenty rows ; 

 I planted the seed without soaking. Two acres of 

 the land were considerably shaded with apple and 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



365 



trees. I had about forty baskets to the 



other 

 acre. 



la I planted about four acres of potatoes this 

 year. About two acres that I planted on the 

 meadow I ploughed as soon as the frost was out three 

 or four inches deep. On one acre I put loam in 

 the hill with a little lime mixed witli it; and on the 

 other I put long manure. The potatoes which I 

 have dug grew to a good size, but were but few in 

 the hill.° What I have dug did not yield more than 

 seventyfive or eighty bushels to the acre. My up- 

 land potatoes are not at this time all dug. I plant- 

 ed lady-fingers, blues, orange, and long reds. 



14. I planted about half an acre to ruta baga, 

 mangel wurtzel and cabbages, and expect to feed 

 them to my cows. 



15. I sowed last fall one and a half acre to 

 winter wheat. This spring I sowed two acres to 

 sprinn- wheat. I usually apply lime on the seed, 

 and also on the land. I put on about two bushels 

 of seed to the acre. Both pieces were blasted ; so 

 that the crop did not equal the seed sown. The 

 spring wheat sowed was the tea wheat. 



ICr I have laid down to grass this year about 

 nine acres. After my grain was pretty well har- 

 rowed in, I sowed from eight to ten quarts of herds 

 grass seed ; when I intended to pasture I added a- 

 bout one and a half lb. of white clover, and went 

 ' over the ground with a light harrow. 



17. In addition to the manure from my stables I 

 fetch meadow mud and loam, and put it under my 

 stables, into my hog-yard, and undermy back house ; 

 sometimes I mix lime with loam or meadow mud. 



18. I kept through last winter one yoke of large 

 oxen, one yoke three years old, one yoke of steers 

 two years old, six heifer calves, which have since 

 taken bull ; six cows and two horses. 



19. I have one barn 82 by 30 ft. ; one 52 by 30 ; 

 one 40 by 28 ; and one built for sheep, 60 by 20 ; 

 the lower part of which barn I am converting into 

 a stable for my cows, and intend to stable them 

 over night in summer and winter, and keep the ma- 

 nure under cover. 



My cows are a mixed breed of native, English 

 and French. 



20. I am in the habit of letting my calves that 

 T raise, have new milk for a week or two, then give 

 them skimmed milk with a little meal ; but this 

 year most of the calves that I raised or killed came 

 very late, and the season was so warm that milk 

 would sour before the cream would rise ; I have 

 therefore given my calves new milk. I have rais- 

 ed this year seven calves. I have but six cows and 

 two of them did not calve till the middle of June 



21. I have had twelve persons in the family, and 

 we drink milk and water instead of cider or spirit. 

 The calves took at least the milk of two cows till 

 about the first of September. We have therefore 

 made but a little more butter and cheese than the 

 family will want— say 420 lbs. four meal cheese 

 and 230 lbs. of butter. | 



22. I killed three hogs which weiglied nearly ] 

 900 lbs. My swine are a mi.xture of Byfield and 

 Bedford or some other down county breed. The 

 sire came from A!r Phinney, of Lexington. 



23. I have put a board fence round about two 

 and a half acres of the most compact part of my 

 orchard and let my hogs run there until about the 

 '50th of August, and give them the wash of the 

 house. After that time I shut them all up and 

 feed them with common apples and pumpkins and 

 wash. When my apples are all gathered, I turn 

 those which I intend to keep over into the orchard 



again ; feed those that I intend to kill with apples 

 and pumpkins raw as long as they last, then feed 

 with pudding made of corn ground in the ear and 

 barley mixed with it, occasionally, giving them a 

 little'small corn till within about a month before I 

 intend to kill, then give them pudding made of corn 

 and barley without the cobb. 



24. I take from my hog-yard from thirty to forty 

 cart loads of manure, made principally of meadow 

 mud and turf. 



2.5. I have a son 19 years of age who goes to 

 school at least one-third ofthe year, probably more ; 

 a grandson 10 last August, who goes to school all 

 the time the town school is kept ; 1 myself am not 

 able to do hard work and do not pretend to mow. 



1 hired a foreigner 4 months at $10 per mo. $40 00 

 I Another man the month of July— paid 20 00 



2 other hands 5 days each at Ss. per day 8 33 

 10 days work 1 man planting and hoeing at 4s. 6 67 



$75 00 



26. I have about 300 apple trees probably, more 

 than one-half of which are grafted. 



27. I have about 50 pear, peach, plum and cher- 

 ry trees. , , u »i, 



28. My trees have never been attacked by tne 



canker worm. . . 



29. I do not allow the use of ardent spirits as 

 a drink on my farm. 



In conclusion I would state that when I came on 

 to the farm nine years since, everything that had 

 been raised had been taken away from if, and the 

 pastures were overrun with alder brakes ; the fen- 

 ces were very much out of repair. Some of the 

 low meadows had not been cut for several years ; 

 nearly all of the meadow-land was very much cov- 

 ered with hassocks, with no manure on the premises, 

 and not being able to buy, with a numerous family, 

 and so m3*iy obstacles in the way, I found it rather 

 hard to gef along. For three of the first years it 

 cost me fifty dollars per year for hay to get my 

 stock through ; and one year I paid $25 for P^isture, 

 and for several years more or less. In 1837 1 pas- 

 tured four cows beside my own stock, and sold 

 $500 worth of hay. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



WILLIAM SALISBURY. 

 Grolon, Oct. \8th, 1838^ 



Good Profits— The New York Journal of Com- 

 merce states that a person last year received a 

 small invoice of the Morus Multicaulis seed from 

 Canton, which cost them pbout four dollars per lb. 

 It was afterwards resold several times, at a con- 

 stantly increased priM, and a small parcel is said 

 to have been sold atone hundred dollars the pound. 

 The price has since abated a little, and the present 

 market rate may bo v^ted at about eighty dollars 



per pound, 



Cure for Ike sting of a Wasp or Bee- A Liver- 

 pool paper states as follows: "A few days ago, 

 happening to be in the country, we witnessed the 

 efficacy of the remedy of a sting of a wasp, men- 

 tioned in one of our late papers. A little boy was 

 stunc' severely and was in great torture, until an 

 onion was applied to the part affected, when the 

 cure was instantaneous. This important and sim- 

 ple remedy cannot be too generally known and we 

 pledge ourselves to the fact above stated, -ian- 

 kte Farmer. ^ 



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 now selling in Alabama at fifty cents a kernel . 



