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Plowing 1 day, man and team, at 12^. per day, $1 50 

 Harrowing and sowing, man and team, at 12^. 



per day, . 1 50 



3 bushels seed wheat at 7^ 2 62 



i ton plaster at $4 . 00 per ton, 50 



Sowing and rolling h day, man and team, .... 75 



1 day harrowing, 2 men, at 8s., 2 00 



h day drawing to barn, 2 men and team, 1 50 



Threshing at $S . 00, per hundred, 6 80 



i day cleaning and measuring, 2 men, at 6^., . . 75 



Interest on land for 6 months at $60 per acre, . 3 70 



121 63 



Cr, By 85 bushels wheat, at 8^., $85 00 



" 5 loads straw at 8iy. per load, ...... 5 00 



90 00 

 Deduct expenses, 21 63 



Use of land, profits, &c., ...» 68 37 



Pen Yan, Yates county , Dec. 29, 1845. 



EXPERIMENT IN WHEAT CULTURE. 



by samuel datidson, gkeene, monroe co. 



Luther Tucker, Esq., 



Secretary of the JYew-York State Agricultural Society: 



Sir — Since the organization of the State Agricultural Society, (as 

 well as county societies,) experiments in that profession have been 

 numerous, and I hope they will redound in much practical good to the 

 agricultural community ; and as I have been one of that class of 

 experimentalists, I will take the liberty to give you a few details of 

 one of my own on a field of wheat I harvested last July. 



About the middle of June, 1844, I finished breaking up a field con- 

 taining nine acres, (chained) ; harrowed the same about the middle of 

 July, and about four weeks after dragging, I cross plowed the same ; 

 after plowing, I harrowed it again, and on the 10th of September I 

 finished plowing the third and last time ; after which, I divided the 

 field into six parcels, of which the following is a diagram, and treated 

 as hereinafter mentioned. 



