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EXTRACT FROM LEWIS COUNTY REPORT. 

 ISAAC KNIGHT. 



Land, green sward ; plowed under ten loads of horse manure about 

 the 20th of May, six inches deep j rolled j sowed three bushels oats 

 to the acre. 



Product. 



90/^ bushels at 2s. 6i., |28 13 



Expense of cultivation, $6 00 



Interest on land, 2 10 



$8 10 



Profit, $20 30 



Lowiille. 



EXTRACT FROM OSWEGO COUNTY REPO/JT. 



NICHOLAS J. nORT. 



1 raised on the twenty acre lot that had been summer-fallowed 

 two years since, sowed with winter wheat, crop taken off last season; 

 last fall I plowed it deep, last spring harrowed it well, then cross 

 plowed and sowed full three bushels of a new kind of black oats to 

 the acre, (the name of those oats I have forgotten, I had them of a 

 man from the Black River country;) harrowed across the furrow, then 

 cross harrow^ed, after which I rolled it with a roller I kept for that 

 purpose, by which means it came in deep in the ground, and w^as not 

 pinched with the drought, I had one acie measured in the north-east 

 corner of said lot of oats, eight rods wide and twenty rods long, kept 

 the oats by themselves, separate from the other oats, carried them to 

 the barn and threshed them right off", cleaned and measured one hun- 

 dred six and a half bushels of oats, weighed one bushel which weigh- 

 ed thirty-three pounds and four ounces, which we think is the aver- 

 age weight of all the oats raised on the eighteen acres and some rods 

 of oats in said twenty acre lot ; you will observe this was all into 

 oats except one acre and fifty-two rods, where I grew barley, and I 

 would further state that the one hundred six and half bushels of oats 

 taken from this acre to be the average crop or yield with the eighteen 

 acres and some rods of oats in said lot ; moreover, I have raised of 

 these kind of oats for three seasons past, and 1 think I have and can 

 raise one quarter more on the same soil, and larger, than I could of 

 the old kind of the white or black oat, of which I had raised for 

 many years past. 



Hastings^ Sept. 19, 1845. 



