This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...are usually large, and are valued highly for the toughness of the wood. The produce of the farm is stated to be 25 bushels of corn to the acre, the manure of two cows only being used to enrich the soil. One and a half tons of hay is stated by him as his crop from the acre of land. And the hay sells for $12,50 per ton. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...are usually large, and are valued highly for the toughness of the wood. The produce of the farm is stated to be 25 bushels of corn to the acre, the manure of two cows only being used to enrich the soil. One and a half tons of hay is stated by him as his crop from the acre of land. And the hay sells for $12,50 per ton. The soil is said also to produce wheat, but he has only tried the small quantity of six quarts of seed, which gave him three and a half bushels of grain as the crop. It is probable that many of the newly broken soils will be found to produce this grain more luxuriantly than those which have been long cultivated, where lime has never been used. Coventry, like the towns just described, has a granite soil, and it is too frequently rocky from the presence of deluvial boulders of granite and gneiss. Where the land is freed from rocks, it is tolerably productive; but I have received no statistical returns from the farmers, and my visit being merely for an outline view, was not continued sufficiently long for me to form decidedly correct opinions respecting the modes of cultivation pursued by the agriculturists. The country abounds with valuable forest trees, which are cut for fuel, and sold in the neighborhood. West-greenwich. From Coventry I went to WestGreenwich, and examined the rock formations, and measured the elevation of the land. Subsequently I revisited this town, and examined the soils, and peat bogs, with a special view to the improvement of agriculture. A large portion of West-Greenwich is rocky, and much labor is required for the clearing of the stones from the soil so as to fit it for tillage. There are, however, clear tracts of excellent soil which will compare advantageously with other portions of the State. When sufficient quantitie...
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