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9th. The value of man and team in plowing and preparing 



the ground, |2 75 



The value of the seed, 2 00 



The value of sowing and harrowing, 75 



Value of harvesting and drawing into barn, 3 00 



The value of thrashing, 2 50 



The value of interest upon the land at $30 per acre, 2 45 



|13 45 



The market value of the crop 44|| bushels at $1, $44 87 h 



46 87 



The market value of the straw, 2 00 



Nett profit of the crop, ' $33 42^ 



JAMES T. GREEN. 



From one acre of land lying and being in the town of Jackson, 

 county of Washington, I have raised forty-four bushels and three 

 pecks of \\inter wheat this present year. The soil, culture, measure- 

 ment and situation of the land is as follows, to wit : The soil is a 

 mixture of slate and loam ; the land lays nearly level, but inclining 

 a little to the east, and shaded on the west and north by wood land. 

 The land had been cleared about five years ; no crop had preceded it ; 

 it was plowed for the first time the fall previous ; the next June 

 cross plowed, and again the first of August ; the fourth and last time 

 it was plowed the last of August, and sowed on the 3d or 4th of 

 September, 1844. No manure nor plaster was put upon the land. 

 The wheat sown upon the acre was one bushel and a half ; before 

 sown it was simply wet with pickle, and three pecks of slacked lime 

 put upon it. The ground was measured before the grain was cut in 

 presence of myself and William Weir, of said town. The area of 

 ground was precisely 160 rods. The wheat, three-fourths of it was 

 cut with a cradle, the rest by sickle and threshed by horses ; the grain 

 measured by myself in a sealed half bushel. 



N. B. The sides of the acre were ten by sixteen rods. 



EXTRACT FROM WAYNE COUNTY REPORT. 

 ABRAHAM FAIRCHILD. 



The kind of soil on which my crop of wheat mentioned in the an- 

 nexed certificates was grown, is 

 Jljis. Gravelly loam. 

 The previous crop was. 



