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Quantity of seed per acre and expense, one peck, $0 25 



Plowing one day, 2 00 



Harrowing half day, 1 00 



Planting two days, 1 50 



Hoeing six days, 4 50 



Harvesting four days, 3 00 



8 loads of fine barnyard manure, used in the hill a 4*. 4 00 



Threshing two days, 1 40 



Interest on land at 7 per cent, at $50 per acre ... 3 50 



Expenses, $21 25 



No. bu. grain and value, 89 bu. and 5 lbs. at 5^. ... 55 68 

 Value of straw and stalks, 2 00 



$57 68 

 Expense of crop, 21 25 



Profit, $36 43 



Kirkland. 



EXTRACT FROM OSWEGO COUNTY REPORT. 

 G. L. SHERWOOD. 



_He raised the past year 133 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. 

 His statement is satisfactory to the oflScers of the Oswego County 

 Society. The ground, however, was not measured by a sworn sur- 

 veyor, nor are any of the statements under oath. 



Soil, sandy loam, underlaid with clay. The lot had been manured 

 for eight years, during which period it has been slightly top-dressed 

 with manure twice, and with plaster twice. No measurement of the 

 field is given, and no data by which to determine the quantity of 

 manure per acre. 



Manured with long manure before turning over the sward — after- 

 wards top-dressed with a mixture of leached ashes and manure, from 

 the sheep and hay yards. Corn planted three feet by one and half 

 feet, and dressed in the hill with a mixture of equal parts of un- 

 leached ashes and plaster ; portions were again dressed with leached 

 ashes and lime. 



South Richland. 



