One woman died and another became ill. We bought a piece of land, 150 acres in size. It is fourteen miles from Lancaster, and two miles from Anderson's Ferry on the Susquehanna River. It is fertile land. Wheat and oats grow very well on it. He (Engel) has 50 acres, a sizable amount of land to water . At the beginning we bought animals - four horses, five cows, seven [?heifers], six sheep, seventeen hogs for my household, and two beef cattle, fattened more than those pasturing in the woods. We also have five hogs. We have eight or nine acres of wheat, as well as six acres of oats, four areas of millet, three acres of field corn, and one acre of flax. We have seeded sixteen acres of flax for the next harvest.
In all parts of the countryside here, there are little mountains, and many springs but they are in deep locations. There are also many streams, on which little mills can be built. In fact, many have already been built. There is both good and bad land, as in other places. All kinds of grain grow here. Rye, oats, barley, field corn, buckwheat, millet, and flax. Grain grows without the manure that one lets in the barns to rot and discolor. We sow three pecks per acre. The acres are a little larger than in Switzerland.
The units are: four pecks make a bushel, a bushel eight [___] . I sow as much as three and one-half of a Bern mäss. An acre yields (usually) from twelve to twenty, or even thirty bushels. For hay and grass, conditions are better in Switzerland,