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A,) no estimate being made of what was used in the family, which 

 averages 18 persons, old and young, the whole year. 



The labor performed in that season, was done by three good teams and 

 a span of brood mares, for odds and ends ; four men by the year — one 

 after the first of July, three each one month in harvest and one by the day 

 through grain cutting. The expenses of said year was $1,069.98 — 

 (see B) . 



Seed sown four pecks of wheat, six or seven of barley and oats, per 

 acre ; clean out of the seed all foul stuff, and the small and defective 

 kernels, (but never have used any other preparation) . Corn is tarred, 

 and rolled in plaster, put from five to six kernels per hill, plant thee feet 

 apart, each way, and thinned to four kernels per hill. 



Potatoes, always cut— large ones into three, next into two pieces — 

 small ones not planted — put two pieces in each hill, plant three feet 

 apart, each way. 



Mangel wurtzels and sugar beets, 4 lbs. of seed per acre, soaked in 

 warm water until it begins to sprout ; mix it with plaster ; sow in 

 drills, two and a half feet apart, and thin the plants to eight or twelve 

 inches apart in the drills. 



Rutabagas, 2 lbs. per acre, soaked in tanner's oil, plastered, and 

 planted the same as beets, and thinned to six or eight inches. 



Long white carrots — 2 lbs. per acre, soaked, and kept warm until it 

 germinates — plastered, planted and thinned the same as the ruta bagas. 



PLANTING, SOWING, AND SHEARING SHEEP. 



The time of commencing the various operations on the farm^ from 



1840 to 1845, inclusive : 



1840. April 1st, sowed clover seed ; 10th, oats ; 17th, barley ; 25th, 



plaster. 



potatoes. 

 May 12th, sowed mangel wurtzei ; 19th, planted corn; 20th, 

 June 1st, sheared sheep. 

 Sept. 10th, sowed wheat. 



1841. April 3d, sowed clover ; 23d, barley; 26th, oats. 



May 14th, sowed plaster ; 18th, mangel wurtzei ; 23d, planted 



corn ; 26th, potatoes. 

 June 11th, sheared sheep. 

 Sept. 17th, sowed wheat. 



1842. March, sowed clover; April 1st, oats; 14th, barley; 23d, 



plaster. 



