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EXTRACT FROM SENECA COUNTY REPORT. 

 HELIM SUTTON. 



On one acre of ground I harvested and thrashed 83 bushels and 

 three quarts of black oats. The above oats grew on low land which 

 had laid several years a sod, a large open ditch was cut six feet 

 across and about two feet deep, and the dirt was spread on the lower 

 side of the ditch on which most of the oats grew. 



Cultivation. 



Plowing one day with team, $1 5Q 



Dragging half a day, 75 



Three bushels of seed, 75 



Sowing the seed , 25 



The use of land, 2 00 



Harvesting, . , 1 00 



Thrashing with horse and log one day, 1 50 



Cleaning half day two hands, 50 



$8 25 

 83 3^2 bushels at two shillings, . . . . 20 78 



Nett proceeds for one acre, . . . $12 53- 



No estimate of boarding either horse or man. 



EXTRACT FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY REPORT. 



A, THOMPSON. 



Andrew Thompson, of Easton, has harvested this year eighty-six 

 bushels and a half of oats from 150 rods of land — the ground 

 last year had corn on it, and about fifteen load of manure from 

 the yard spread on and plowed in — this year the ground plowed 

 the last of April, or the first of May ; sowed the sixth or seventh 

 May; no manure this year except a few quarts of plaster on a small 

 part of it ; four bushels of oats sowed on the ^g-round, the oats were 

 rept in August, and threshed in October with a machine. The ground 

 is a loam, with a mixture of clay, the ground plowed once this spring. 



