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deed, with every other on my farm, an accurate oceount of expenses- 

 has been kept. The treatment of every part was alike, and the 

 growth so nearly equal, that I was in doubt whether to make a se- 

 lection, or to take the whole field. One-seventh of the whole ex- 

 pense till the time of harvest, being therefore taken for this one acrcy 

 the aggregate expense of the crop is as follows: 



EXPENSES, 



To plowing, 1 man and 1 horse f ths day, at 12^. $0 95 



Harrowing, 1 boy, 1 pair horses -| jths day, 12^ 1 18 



Rolling, one boy, one pair horses, 2 ?ths day, 12^ 17 



Seed oats, 3| th bushels by measure, at 4^ 1 93 



Sowing do., man j-gih day, at 8^ 06 



Plaster, worth 4^ , 50 



Sowing do., man j-gth day at 85 06 



Cradling, man half day, at 8s 50 



Raking and binding, man half day at S^ 50 



Setting up, man |th day at 8^ 13 



Drawing in, two men, one team, |th day at 245 43 



Raking scatters, man and horse, -j'ath day. at II5 Oil 



Drawing in scatters, 06 



Threshing done at one tenth, 2 31 



Use of land at $50 per acre, 3 50 



Taxes of every description on land, 21 



Total expenses of crop, $12 61 



RECEIPTS. 



4 



By 66 y'gth bushels oats at 35 cents, the price paid at the 



mills at harvest time, $23 12 



198 bundles straw, worth to feed out, 2 cents, 3 96 



100 lbs. scatters, not threshed, worth for fodder as much as 



hay, 35 



Total value of crop, $27 43 



12 61 



Nett profit, $14 82 



This, to be sure, is not a large profit for an acre of ^^ premium 

 oats." But then it should be remembered that I have allowed for the 

 use of the land, the interest of its cost, though purchased at a time 

 when oats sold at 3^. 6d. wheat at 14^., and other produce in pro- 

 portion; also, that labor and seed cost about the same. So that if 

 the market price of oats had now borne a just proportion to the ex- 

 pense of raising the crop, as compared with former years, the footing 

 would have shown an additional profit of about $5.78; which, added 

 to the above, would make the nett profit $20.96, which is nearly 

 double the whole expense of the crop. 



