A good specimen of Durham ox, three and a half years old, weighs 1500 lbs.

live weight.

The farm is provided with large scales for weighing hay, cattle, &c., and so arranged, that one hundred head can easily be weighed in two hours.
No manure is used, except farm-pen and gypsum; the former is generally applied to Indian corn and meadow land.

The gypsum is thrown, a bushel to the acre, on each crop of wheat and clover--cost of gypsum, ten shillings for twenty bushels.

A mowing machine, with two or three horses and one man, can cut, in one day, twelve acres of heavy meadow land, if it stand up; but if laid at all, from six to ten.