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trees, and fertilises the ground with top dressing of compost and 

 stable manure. Your committee would recommend this plan for 

 the management of orchards. 



A nul'sery of three thousand young pines, and two thousand 

 young arbor vit?e trees, were growing vigorously ; these trees were 

 brought^from the State of Maine, in crates; they cost four cents 

 a tree, delivered at Flatbush ; none were lost by transplanting. 



There was four acres of timothy grass exhibited to your com- 

 mittee, in one field, which produced two tons per acre. In an- 

 other field, was growing four and a half acres of timothy and 

 clover, which yielded three tons per acre. In a third field, were 

 nine acres of timothy, which produced two tons per acre. 



Mr. Coleman informed your committee, that he sold, prior to 

 the 25th of June, from his farm, garden vegetables, cucumbers 

 and spinach, to the value of $600. That his fall crop of spinach, 

 beets, carrots, celery and cabbage, yielded him more- than $600 

 more, which w'ere used by him to supply the Astor House. 



He has cut from three to ten acres of salt coarse grass per year 

 which are used for covering vegetables, feed for cattle, and the 

 hogpen and barnyard. The stock kept by Mr. Coleman, this 

 year, consists of four farm horses, one pair of mules, four milch 

 cows, and twenty hogs ; other horses are taken to stable, which 

 consume the balance of the hay grown on his farm. At times, 

 Mr, Coleman has kept one hundred and fifty hogs ; he supplies 

 them with food from the Astor House, which is sufficient to feedj 

 this number of swine ; the hogs are put into pens, with yards ad- 

 jacent, into which is thrown sea weeds, salt water grass, and peat 

 muck, which form a compost of excellent quality ; the hogs are 

 found to be active workers In muck and compost. 



He has reclaimed four acres of peat land ; this soil is of great 

 depth, and is found to contain a large portion of clam shells ; 

 this is the only form in which lime has been used on this farm; 

 the shells crumble, and when raked out. produce a good covering 

 for garden walks, as well as a fertile ingredient in the compost or 

 manure heap. 



