330 [Senatk 



Expenses of cultivation. 



Expense of plowing half an acre, |0 87| 



Harrowing, 27 



Seed, 7d 



Half a day's labor planting, 27 



Interest on land at 60 dollars per acte, ». 2 10 



Manure, ten loads and drawing, 2 50 



Labor in weeding first time, three days, . . . » 2 25 



Two other dressings, four days, 3 00 



Harvesting, , . ► , » 5 00 



$17 21 i 



Value of crop, 487 bushels at 2s. per bushel, |121 75 



Deduct expense, » ^ . , 17 21 i 



1104 53^ 



I would make the following remarks in regard to the statement :■ 

 I have endeavored to make it with care and accuracy as to the value 

 of the crop. I may have overrated. I speak with reference to my- 

 self and circumstances, owing to the severe drouth the past summer 

 my hay crop is light. I have forty-five cows to winter, and the beets 

 with something over five hundred bushels of carrots raised in the 

 same field I am confident no man would buy of me for two shillings^ 

 per bushel. The carrots were raised on half an acre of land witk 

 the same cultivation as the beets* 



Hamilton^ JYov. 25, 1846. 



J. F, OSBURN. 



I will improve a few leisure moments in sending you a state- 

 ment of a crop of beets raised by me the present year. My crops 

 in general are rather poor, owing to the dry weather. My wheat 

 yielded twenty or twenty-five bushels to the acre ; corn, three 

 acres, fifty-eight bushels per acre. On-e acre and a half of Mercer 

 potatoes yielded 250 bushels, which are very good size, and keep 

 -well as yet. Three-quarters of an acre of Pinkeyes, Bradleys, &c. 

 in another field gave 150 bushels large and fair when dug, but having 

 carried a quantity in my cellar for winter use, they soon commenced 

 rotting. I immediately removed them, and then washed and sorted 

 them, and found at least three-quarters of them infected. Over 

 those that were sound, I sifted a small quantity of slacked lime, and 

 they are now in a good state of preservation. I planted half an acre 

 and seven and a half square rods to sugar beets, and the same quan- 

 tity to mangel wurtzel. When they were last hoed they appeared 



