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main until just before the last plowing, then spread and plowed in 

 immediately. In every other respect the treatment of the two acres 

 was the same as the other part. The whole was plowed three times 

 and sowed with two bushels of seed per acre, on the first day of Sep- 

 tember. 



The two acres ripened earlier than the other part ; — after it was 

 well up in the fall, it could be distinguished from the other, the line 

 of diff'erence in color and height being perfectly distinct ; and it con- 

 tinued in advance of the other through the following spring and sum- 

 mer, and was harvested first. We cut from it 79 dozen of very large 

 sheaves ; and the wheat, when threshed and cleaned, measured 83 

 bushels and about four quarts of clean wheat. When sold at the 

 mill the quantity by weight was 87 bushels. 



In estimating the expenses I have endeavored to put them suffi- 

 ciently high ; not having made any account at the time, I put the 

 prices we usually pay. 



Expenses of cultivating two acres of wheat,: 



Plowing 4 days, $8 00 



Harrowing twice, 50 



Sowing 4 bush, and harrowing in 75 



Cost of seed, 1 75 



Drawing manure &c., , 5 50 



do and spreading on field, 4 00 



Cost of 12 bush, lime, 1 80* 



do do 10 do ashes, 60 



Cutting wheat and binding, 2 00 



Drawing in barn, 1 50 



Threshing and cleaning, 6 48 



Interest on land, ^ , 11 20 



$44 08 



Produce of the above two acres, 87 bushels at 



84 cents per bush. $73 40 



Amount of expenses, 44 08 



Profit, $29 32 



Note 1. The whole field was sowed alike, yet the composted part 

 was a third thicker than the other ; and tillered so as to completely 

 cover the ground in the spring ,' the stalks grew rapidly and slender, 

 and I was fearful they would lodge. It is my opinion that one bushel 

 of seed per acre would have been enough. One thing is true, the 

 better we prepare our ground and the more fertile we make it, the 

 more certainty there is of the seed coming up well and tillering, 

 other things being equal. 



2. Of the 8h acres, there were about two acres that had been wet 

 ground and would winter kill grain ; we dug and laid several blind 

 ditches, which drained the land so that we obtained from that wet 



