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The cost of production per acre would be about as follows, 

 viz: 



First plowing three-fourths of a day* • • • $1 12-^- 



Second plowing at planting 1 50 



Two boys one day planting 1 00 



Ten bushels seed at fifty cents per bushel, 5 00 

 Four times tending, one hand and horse, 2 00 



Two days plowing at gathering 3 00 



Two days for three boys gathering 3 00 



Interest on land 1 20 



c 



$17 82^ 

 •, Sale of 200 bushels at twenty-five cents, (supposed 



crop) $50 00 



From which deduct hauling, five cents 



per bushel 10 00 



Added to whole cost 17 82^ 



27 82i- 



Nett profits $22 17^ 



Or more than the nett proceeds of three and a-half acres 

 of corn. 



5, This calculation is made for soil where there is no addi- 

 tional cost for manuring, which if done would yield propor- 

 tionately. 



The cost of seed is a considerable item of expense, the es- 

 timate is made at a price which they are supposed to be 

 w^orth at planting time. The price (twenty-five cents,) sold 

 for is low, being less by twenty-five per cent, than the present 

 low market prices. We have sold potatoes in Lafayette at 



Y seventy-five cents per bushel. 



Cattle. — There has been more attention paid to the breed- 

 ing and rearing of this stock than to any other, it comprising 

 the principal production of some of our best farms. Good 

 breeds have been introduced from Kentucky and Virginia, 

 bred originally from imported stock; the correct pedigree 



