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days. He is a wealtln- old fanner, not giv^en to boasting, and without 

 mercenary motive in making the statement, as he has no cows to sell, 

 and would like to procure more of the same sort. 



Mr. T. J. Bussey, Macedon, Xew York, forwarded an account of 

 four cows, milked by him the past season, the average time of calving 

 being April 18. Sold three calves, four weeks old, for $27.25 : 

 raised one worth fifteen dollars ; butter made during the season, 

 1,113 pounds, average price per pound, thirty-three cents, $367.29 ; 

 also made 1,568 pounds pork, at twelve dollars per hundred, 

 $188.16; total, $597.70. Said hogs consist of a sow and seven pigs, 

 being ten days old the 18th day of April, for which I paid tliirty-tive 

 dollars. In addition to the sour milk were fed with 100 bushels 

 of potatoes, worth thirty dollars ; ten bushels of corn, worth ten 

 dollars ; ten bushels of barley screenings, worth five dollars ; total, 

 eighty dollars. Product of cows, $517.70. Income from each cow, 

 $129.42^. The same cows were fed on nothing but grass until the 

 23d day of November, when they were put upon clover hay that had 

 been summered over, and a peck of potatoes each, daily, and are 

 making now seventeen pounds per week. • 



Long Island Lands. 



Mr. E. F. Ilichardson, Brentwood, Long Island, forwarded the 

 following statement regarding some of the experiments and results 

 of eight years work on the wild lands of the scouted section : 

 "With my limited means I have cleared some thirty -five acl-es, 

 have planted some to upland cranberries and other small and orchard 

 fruits. I have tried onions, sweet potatoes, and different vegetables. 

 These, with the ])rinciple farm crops, though not on a large scale, 

 have confirmed me in the belief that a large ])roportion of Long Island 

 plains may be cleared and cultivated so as to pay as good a i)rofit 

 as can be derived from agricultural pursuits in most parts of the 

 eastern States or New York. I would like to show any one half an 

 acre of dry loam land which I cleared and planted with upland 

 cranberry vines six years ago. I planted and cultivated them as I 

 would strawberry vines, with the exception of not applying manure 

 of any kind. The fruit the third year paid the expense of hoeing 

 the three years. The fourth year paid a little more than the cost 

 of purchasing land, planting vines etc., from the time of setting. 



The two succeeding years, fifth and sixth, gave a net profit of 

 $136 from the half acre. Gooseberries and other small fruits have 



