ble, put in small cocks, double them and turn them together bot tom side up. Hay cured as much as possible in the cock is decidedly better in every respect to that cured by too much shaking about. Clover, if fortunate in curing, we like very much for milch cows; we never turn clover out at all; put it up the next day after it is cut in small grass cocks, next day double them and so on until it is fit to put in the mow. We salt all our hay at the rate of half a peck to the ton. 20. We have not any mowing lands unsuitable for the plow. '. 21. Have not practiced irrigation or watering meadows. 22. Have not reclaimed any bog or peat lands, but a great part of the farm has been reclaimed from a sterile cold wet soil since it has been under the management of its present owner. Under draining, deep plowing and manure have had the desired effect. 23. Have 38 cows, 4 heifers, 1 bull, 1 yoke of oxen and 4 horses; bull half breed Ayrshire, cows, Durham, grades and natives. 24. Have not made experiments to show the relative value of the different breeds, but have observed sufficiently to satisfy ourselves that the Durham and native grade are better for the dairy than full blood, and full blood best for fattening. We are now trying the Ayrshire grade. 25. Consider the best and cheapest manner of wintering cattle as follows: as soon as frosty nights commence, hard enough to kill vegetation, stable them nights, and if cold storms occur feed them; our stables are parted into stalls six feet wide, two cows in each stall, a row on each side of the building, with their heads towards the middle, an alley way through center for feeding, when winter sets in we feed them all they will eat up clean; we sometimes cut our hay mixed with straw and stalks, which is a great saving and undoubtedly pays for the extra labor; we feed one bushel of brewer's grains to each cow per day, that is in milk; the cows are turned into the yard in the middle of day for exercise and drink; have raised carrots and turnips for feed; like carrots very much for horses and cows, but they will not produce as much milk as brewer's grains, and when we can get grains for five cents per bushel, they are the cheapest food we can feed. 26. Make no butter or cheese, sell the milk in Albany. 27. Do not keep sheep. 29. Keep from eight to ten hogs, pasture them in summer and give them the slop of the kitchen, have not been particular about the breed; fatten on corn and kill when twelve to fourteen months old, weigh about 200 pounds; have now a pair of Suffolk to try them. 30. Have made no experiments to show the relative value of potatoes, turnips and other root crops, compared with Indian corn or other grain, for feeding animals for fattening or for milk. 31. Have some 200 apple trees, all grafted, Greening, Spitzenburgh, Swaar, Newtown pippin, Alexander, Seek-no-further, Baldwin, Russett, Jersey sweeting, Red Astrachan, and Juneating. 32. Several varieties of cherries, plums, pears and peaches; the black variety of cherry and the gage plum, are the best of their kind; pears have been for the last few years very much subject to the blight, peaches are almost too uncertain, particularly in this section, to warrant much attention. 33. The caterpillar is somewhat troublesome on the apple trees in the spring, an oiled sponge on pole, will soon remove them by rubbing it through their nests; the curculio is very troublesome, not only to the plum, but the cherry and apple suffer by them, have not discovered any remedy for them, the most successful mode we have tried is jarring them off on to a sheet, in the morning when they are a little stiff and it is damp, and be sure and kill them. 34. Our general management of fruit trees, is to cultivate a young tree as you would a hill of corn; manure it and keep the soil loose around it, wash the bodies with soft soap and lime; prune them in a way that they will not shoot up too high, and in a way that the trunks will not be too much exposed to the sun. 35. The buildings were not built expressly for farm buildings, but have been altered so that they are quite convenient; one dwelling, three barns, cow stable, hog-house, wood-house and smoke house. 36. Our fences are all post and board; red cedar and chestnut posts, and hemlock boards; cost seventy-five cents per pannel, and are in good condition. 37. Our fields are all surveyed; they are manured, as circumstances call for, observations made on the different modes of tillage, the crops weighed or measured, the seed sown by weight or measure. 38. Keep daily accounts, can state the annual expense in improving the farm. No. 1 is dwelling house, 30 by 19, two stories high, with basement, and a double piazza, the whole length of the house. No. 2, wood-house; No. 3, brick smoke and ash-house; No. 4 garden; No. 5, hog-house, 40 by 15, divided into 5 pens for 5 hogs each, |