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mediately upon its coming into my hands I seeded it and pastured it 

 four years, and at the time of breaking it up, manured with thirty- 

 two horse loads of barnyard manure spread broadcast ; planted to 

 corn, which was a fair crop; no manure applied this season ; the 

 quantity of seed sown upon the acre, five and a half bushels; kind, 

 black-eyed peas ; time of sowing, middle of April ; manner, broad- 

 cast ; cleaning, passed through a fanning mill, afterward a seive used 

 which retains the pea ; allowmg oats and split peas to pass through; 

 harvesting, mowed with a scythe, rolled, cured and housed. The crop 

 was fifty-five bushels to the acre. The sample sent is a sample of 

 the whole crop. 



Expense of cultivation. 



One day plowing, a man and team, $1 50 



One day harrowing and rolling, a man and team, 1 50 



Two days sowing and harvestmg,- 1 50 



Two days threshing and cleaning, 1 50 



$6 00 

 Marcy, Oneida county. 



WILLIAM FRENCH. 



I present a claim for the best crop of peas in the county of Mont- 

 gomery. 



The land on which the crop of peas was raised was plowed last 

 fall once, and once this last spring. After the seed was sowed this 

 spring it was dragged three times. The soil at the time of sowing 

 (this last spring) was black loam, and good soil. About two hundred 

 sheep were fed on said land for the period of one week last winter, 

 and the soil has not been manured for several years (eight years past 

 for certainty) . The crop of last year on said land was a wheat crop. 

 Said land was plowed twice, and harrowed three times, at the time 

 of putting in said wheat crop. The quantity of seed used for said 

 pea crop was eight bushels. The seed is called It was 



sowed the last week of April last, and was sowed broadcast. The 

 crop was harvested in the third week of August, and was mowed 

 with a grass scythe, and rolled into small heaps, which lay about one 

 week, and were then drawn into a barn and threshed with horses, 

 and was cleaned with a fanning mill. The crop by measurement 

 consisted of one hundred and two and a half bushels. The land on 

 which said crop was raised consisted of two acres and twenty-six 

 rods, according to an estimate of Mr. D. B. Hager. The whole crop 

 yielded one hundred two and a half bushels ; which would be at the 

 rate of forty-seven bushels one peck and five quarts of peas per acre. 

 The expense of cultivation was eight dollars and twenty-five cents.. 



