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Threshed on the 8th, 9th and 10th September by a machine. The 

 straw being very large, the machine coukl not take the grain out clean, 

 and in the longest straw which was lodged, probably one-fourth re- 

 mained in the straw. Considerably injured while in the barn, where 

 it had remained since harvesting, by mice, rats and barn weevil. 

 Measured when cleaned 86 J bushels, or about 425 bushels to the acre. 

 Ground surveyed and certified as containing two acres and 6if| 

 perches. Variety selected, red beard, white wheat, three rows of grain 

 on a side. 



CULTURE OF HOPS. 



MoRRisviLLE, Sept. 20th, 1845. 

 To the President of the American Institute: 



Dear Sir — I send you herewith a statement of the process of culti- 

 vating two acres of hops, of which the samples sent to the fair for a pre- 

 mium were a part. 



The ground was well plowed and manured with 40 loads of barn- 

 yard manure per acre, and planted with corn and hops. Last year 

 the expense of cultivating the two acres for the present year is as fol- 

 lows : 



41 loads of manure put in hills, $30 00 



Rise of poles, 45 00 



Labor of cultivating 2 acres, 40 00 



Use of land, 14 00 



Harvesting and bagging, 87 50 



$216 50 

 Produce of the 2 acres, 25001bs. at 1^., 312 50 



Net profits, $96 00 



The above land is a mixture of dark loam and gravel well adapted 

 to grass. 



Yours respectfully, 



EZRA LELAND, 



