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5th. Harvested as follows: — Mowed; lay in swarth two days; 

 raked and put in cocks, and carted to the barn next day. Expenses 

 $15.13. — Product from one acre 53 bushels, 38^ lbs., $23.50.^ 

 Profit, $8.37. 



Barley. — Mr. Vandeveer''s statement. 



My acre of barley was sown upon land in potatoes last year year, 

 once plowed and harrowed, at the rate of about three bushels per 

 acre. Estimated expense: 



Plowing, harrowing and sowing, $2 00 



Seed, , 1 88 



Harvesting and threshing, 3 00 



|6 88 

 Product, 40 bushels, 14 quarts, at 40 cents, .... $16 09 



Rye. — Mr. Goodwin'' s statement. 



Soil, a deposite from red rock formation, with muck, and a mi- 

 nute portion of clay, and perhaps sand; in high condition, no manure 

 this nor the preceding year. In oats last year; plowed once; 70 

 bushels to the acre. - 



Seed, 1 4 bushels, .- $1 13 



Sept. 1st, sowed, plowed once, 1 day, 2 00 



Harrowed twice, half day, 1 00 



1-| days, reaping, 1 50 



Threshed and cleaned, by hand, 2 50 



Interest on land, $40 per acre, 2 80 



$10 93 

 Amount of crop, 32 bushels and 36 lbs. This was 

 a choice specimen of grain, and was sold princi- 

 pally for seed, at 75 cents per bushel, $24 38 



Deduct expenses, 10 93 



Profit, , $13 45 



Rye. — Mr. Vandeveer''s statement. 



My rye was sown on oat and pea stubble; soil, a yellow loam. 



Once plowing, $2 00 



Harrowing and sowing, 1 50 



Harvesting and threshing, 5 00 



Product 28 bushels, 29 quarts, at 75 cents, $21 04 



