The average crop of Indian corn is from fifty to sixty bushels, and of wheat, from twenty-five to thirty per acre.  The pasture land supports one head to one and one-third acre.  Grass-fattened cattle go to market from September to November, fetching 2-1/4d. per lb. live weight, or 4-1/2d. per lb. for beef alone.  Cattle are kept upon hay and straw from the middle of November to 1st of May, if intended for fattening upon grass; but, if intended for spring market, they are fed on Indian corn-meal in addition.  Sheep are kept on hay exclusively, from the middle of November to the 1st of April.  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.  The number of men employed on the farm is, six for six months, twelve for three months, and twenty-five for three months.  Ten horses and five yoke of oxen are kept for farm purposes.  The common waggon used weighs eight hundredweight, and holds fifty bushels.  Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels.

The wages of the farm servants are:—­For those engaged by the year, 2l. 10s. a month; for six months, 2l. 18s. 6d. a month; for three months, 3l. 11s. a month—­besides board and lodging, on the former of which they are not likely to find their bones peeping through their skin.  They have meat three times a day—­pork five days, and mutton two days in the week—­a capital pie at dinner; tea and sugar twice a day; milk ad libitum; vegetables twice a day; butter usually three times a day; no spirits nor beer are allowed.  The meals are all cooked at the farm, and the overseer eats with the men, and receives from 75l. to 125l. a year, besides board and lodging for his family, who keep the farm-house.  When every expense is paid, mine host netts a clear six per cent. on his farm, and I think you will allow that he may go to bed at night with little fear of the nightmare of a starving labourer disturbing his slumbers.  Not that he troubles sleep much, for he is the nearest thing to perpetual motion I ever saw, not excepting even the armadillo at the Zoological Gardens, and he has more “irons in the fire” than there were bayonet-points before Sevastopol.

The village contains a population of two thousand inhabitants, and consists of a few streets, the principal of which runs along a terrace, which, being a continuation of the one on which we were lately standing, commands the same lovely view.  But, small as is the village, it has four churches, an academy, two banks, two newspaper offices, and a telegraph office.  What a slow coach you are, John Bull!