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EXTRACTS FROM CAYUGA COUNTY REPORT. 

 SARAH WARN. 



The quantity of land is eleven acres ; summer fallowed, plowed 

 three times ; soil sandy gravelly loam. The seed sown were of the 

 Flint and Hutchinson varieties. Harvested and threshed together. 

 The yield from the eleven acres was 420 bushels, averaging 38^i bu- 

 shels per acre. Nine out of the eleven acres no doubt would have 

 turned something over 40 bushels to the acre, and if the best acre 

 had been selected from the nine, no doubt there would have been 

 nearly, or quite fifty bushels from that acre. 



Expense of plowing 11 acres 3 times, , , $33 00 



" seed 2 bushels per acre, 22 00 



" harrowing 5 times, 11 00 



" harvesting, 16 00 



" carting 2 days, team and 4 hands, 6 00 



" threshing and cleaning at 10 cts. per bushel, . . 42 00 



Interest on land at $100 per acre, 77 00 



Total, $207 00 



Cr. By 420 bushels wheat, at $1, 420 00 



Nett profits, , $213 00 



The above estimate is near the cost and profits of the crop of 

 wheat. 



N. B. There was applied about 20 loads of barnyard manure per 

 acre on the nine acres above mentioned. 



Sennett, Jan. 12fh, 1846, 



THOMAS OGDEN. 



I raised on my farm about fourteen acres of winter wheat, which 

 averaged about 27 bushels per acre. About one half, or seven acres, 

 after spring wheat, barley, and meadow, once plowed. The remain- 

 der summer fallow, plowed three times. The whole soil a sandy 

 gravelly loam. The part sowed after spring crops averaged as high as 

 the fallow. But my best acre was selected from the fallow part^ 

 which was harvested and threshed separate. It, when cleaned,, 

 measured 38 i bushels. 



