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Expense of plowing 3 times, 1 acre, $3 00 



" seed, 2 bushels, at |1, 2 00 



" harrowing 5 times, 1 25 



" manure, 6 loads, 3 00 



'* harvesting, 1 50 



" carting and threshing, 3 50 



Total, $14 25 



Cr. By 38|- bushels wheat at 10^, |48 12^ 



Deduct for expenses, 14 25 



133 871 

 From which deduct interest of land at $50 per acre, 3 50 



Nett proceeds from the acre, $30 2>1\ 



Sennett, January 12, 1846. 



EXTRACT FROM CORTLAND COUNTY REPORT. 

 OLIVER M. SHEDD. 



From 219 square rods we gathered 703 sheaves, which, being 

 thrashed and cleaned up measured 42 J bushels. This crop was sown 

 after spring wheat, the ground being once plowed, the stubble being 

 turned in about eight inches deep the first week in August, no ma- 

 nure being applied the first week in September. The ground was 

 twice thoroughly dragged ; the 9th September the ground was sown 

 at the rate of two bushels of the Hutchinson wheat to the acre, and 

 thoroughly dragged twice and rolled down. When the wheat was 

 fully up in the blade, there was a top dressing put on at the rate of 

 eight bushels of fresh lirne, four bushels of house ashes, and one of 

 plaster, being mixed together. The crop was cut the 21st of July, 

 1845, while the berry was yet soft, so that it might be mashed with 

 the fingers, bound up and capped so as to protect it from the sun 

 whilst curing. 



Expenses of crop. 



For once plowing, $1 00 



For twice dragging, 1 00 



Three bushels of seed, at 7s 2 63 



Expenses of sowing, dragging, rolling, 1 50 



The top dressing and labor for putting on, 2 00 



Cutting and securing, 1 70 



$11 83 



