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be more destructive of fruit than all other causes combined. The 

 mansion house grounds contain about 12 acres, which are covered 

 with shade and fruit trees, principally sugar maple, bass wood, 

 elm, weeping willow, cherry, apples and pears. 



The produce of hay upon the lawn was increased one third, 

 and the quality much improved by top dressing it this spring, 

 with a compost of a ton of guano, combined with three times its 

 bulk of charcoal dust. 



The farm is divided exclusive of the three orchards into 11 

 fields. No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 containing 49 acres of a fine sandy 

 loam are cultivated as a market garden. No. 6 containing 12 

 acres of a light sandy loam produces when highly manured, fair 

 crops of tomatoes and turnips. No 8 and 9 containing 16 acres, 

 are cut for hay. No 10 and 11 containing 16 acres are used as 

 pasture lots. There are on two of the fields ponds covering about 

 an acre each fed by springs. 



Besides the manure made upon the place, that of a stable in 

 which are kept about 200 horses situated within a mile of the 

 farm is also used. The cost of this exclusive of transportation 

 for the year ending Oct. 1, 1852 was |760. 



The live stock consists of 2 yoke of oxen, 23 cows, 6 yearlings 

 1 bull, 9 horses of which there was a mare with 2 colts sired Ijy 

 Trustee, a horse of celebrity, 18 hogs, 50 geese and 100 fowls. 

 The cows are a produce of the cross between the Durham andna- 

 tive. The hogs that of the Berkshire and Grass. 



The system of culture pursued by Mr. Baity is as follows: as 

 soon as the frost is sufiiciently out to admit working the ground, 

 he commences plowing &c., in the usual mode of planting first 

 parsnips, prefers the cut parsnip. Prepares hot beds of which he 

 uses about 60 frames, from the middle Jan., to 1st Feb. Raises 

 salad plants from seed planted in the open ground about 1st of 

 Sep., transplants them into frames late in the fall before the 

 ground freezes, then transplants them to the hot beds from the 

 middle of Jan, to Feb., tliey are usually fit for use in about four 

 weeks from being transplanted to the hot beds. Sows seeds from 

 plants in the hot beds from 1 Feb. Cabbage, tomatoes, egg-plant 



