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Account of S/iephenPs Corner Farm, 
No. 5. — Lower Ball — 34 acres, 35 perches. 
1827- 8. Digged to tlie depth of 9 inches ; surface- soil not hurled. 
1828. West part, ahout 12 acres, sown with oats ; seed 6 bush., crop 
25 hush, per acre. 
1828- 9. Remainder dug to the depth of 9 inches; surface-soil not 
buried. 
1829. Two acres potatoes; seed 8 sacks per acre ; crop 160 bush. 
per acre; remainder uncultivated. 
1830. Uncultivated. 
1831. Uncultivated, excepting 8 acres vetches; seed 3 hush, per 
acre ; very light crop, eaten ofl' by sheep. 
1832. Uncultivated ; natural rough grass in abundance. 
1833. Ditto ditto ditto 
1833-4. Chalked. 
1834. Common turnip; seed 3 lbs. per acre; manure 30 bush, ashes 
per acre, crop pretty good ; 16 weeks' feed for 300 sheep. 
1835. Oats ; seed 6 bush. ; crop 38 bush, per acre ; grass-seeds sown, 
1 bush. Devon ray, 10 lbs. trefoil, and 2 lbs. Dutch clover. 
1836. Young clover ; mown, good crop, li ton per acre ; run for 200 
sheep during the winter. 
183*7. Two years' ley; half of field mown, crop Ij ton per acre; 
folded over by sheep ; the other half pastured by sheep and 
slightly dunged. 
1 838. Wheat ; 3 bush, seed ; crop good, 28 bush, per acre. 
1839. Eight acres peas; seed 4 bush.; crop 20 bushels per acre ; 
2 acres potatoes, crop 180 bush, per acre; 24 acres to 
common turnip ; manured by 20 bush, bone-dust and ashes, 
very light crop, feed fur 200 sheep 2 months. 
1840. Oats; pretty good crop, 34 bush, per acre ; grass-seeds sown 
as in 1835. 
1841. Young clover; mown, crop H ton per acre. 
1542. Two years' ley ; mown, 1 ton per acre ; 19 acres with Avheat, 
manured by Lance's humus and bone, 20 bush, per acre ; 
the other 15 acres dunged and folded over, and sown in 
spring with nursery wheat. 
1843. Wheat. 
No. 6.~Bittem Field — 23 acres, 3 roods. 
1834-5. Pared and burned, and 5 acres chalked and ploughed. 
1835. Common turnip ; good crop, feed for 300 sheep for 3 months. 
1836. Oats ; crop 40 bush, per acre. 
1837. Peas ; 4 acres, crop 24 bushels ; beans 2 acres, a light crop of 
] 6 bush. ; and common turnips, which were a geod crop, 
feed for 200 sheep for 3 months. 
1838. All to vetches; feed for 500 sheep for 10 weeks. 
1S39. Wheat; seed 3 bush., crop 26 bush, per acre. 
