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corn was planted, and produced fifty bushels per acre. Plowed again 

 in the fall of 184 Ij and in the spring of 1842 it was harrowed once, 

 then sowed, two bushels of black oats per acre, on the 13th Aprilj 

 after which it was harrowed twice, and afterwards rolled with a hea- 

 vy roller J 15th June, they were 12 inches high, and were mowed by 

 cutting to within 5 or 6 inches of the ground; 10th to 20th of Au- 

 gust, they were harvested by reaping; after which they were hauledj 

 stacked, threshed and cleaned, by one of Pitt's separators. 



Expense of the Crop. 



6 days plowing in the fall, $10 50 



2 days harrowing, 1st time, spring, 3 50 



Furrowing into lands, and sowing, 1 25 



Harrowing twice, 4 days, 7 00 



Rolling, one day, 2 teams, 2 75 



Mowing in June, 3 days, 2 25 



22 days reaping, 16 50 



15 days binding and stouting, 1125 



8| men and 4|^ teams, hauling and stacking, 10 88 



32 days with men, and 21 with horses, threshing, 



cleaning and measuring, 34 50 



$91 40 



Value of the crop, at 15 cts. per bushel, $130 69 



20 loads straw, at $1 . 00 per load, 20 00 



$150 69 

 The average yield per acre of the above crop, is 91 bushels, 28 

 pounds. 



Peas. — Mr Whitens Statement, 



Of raising a crop of marrowfat peas, the season of 1842. The 

 condition of the land, green-sward. It had been mowed and pastur- 

 ed for the last eight years. The field contained about three acres or 

 more, as near as I could judge. The ground was plowed seven in- 

 ches deep, which is the common depth when I turn green-sward. 

 The quantity of seed sown, was ten bushels. They were sown upon 

 the furrows, then harrowed the same way that it was plowed, and 

 then corner ways, minding to turn back the sods that were torn up. 

 There was no roller, bush or manure, used on the ground. Time of 

 sowing was the l3th day of April. Cutting and drawing them in, 

 was the 20th, 22d and 24th days of August. The time of threshing 

 and cleaning one acre, the 1st of December. Number of bushels, 

 33^, measured. At the time of cutting the peas, I went and measur- 

 ed off from one corner of the field, one acre, and staked it out, so 

 that they could be by themselves. When we drawed them in, we 

 put them separate from the others; threshed and cleaned separate. 

 The expense of cultivating, harvesting, threshing, cleaning and seed, 

 for the whole piece, is twenty-two dollars. 



