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The quantity I raised this year, was ten bushels and thirty-three 

 pounds of good seed, weighing sixty pounds the bushel ; one bushel 

 and eleven pounds of seed weighing fifty-two pounds per bushel ; and 

 one and a half bushels of tailings weighing thirty-eight pounds per 

 bushel, on three acres and ten square rods of land. 1 send you a sam- 

 ple of all kinds for you to judge from. I think it would have yield- 

 ed over five bushels to the acre, had it not been eaten by the clover 

 seed worm, that I shall hereafter describe. You can form some idea 

 by examining the sample I send, although I have over a barrel of tail- 

 ings that is little but the hull of clover seed, with the meat eaten out, 

 and which I do not report. 



Expenses. \ 



One and a half bushels plaster, and sowing $0.50 



Mowing two days at 75 cents 1 .50 



One day raking and heaping clover hay 75 



Man and boy I of a day drawing in with team 1 .88 



Thrashing chaff from straw 2 . 00 



Cleaning seed from chaff 6 . 50 



$13.13 



Credit. 



By lOf f bushels good seed, at $5 per bushel $52 .75 



By lii bushels seed at $2.50 per bushel 3.00 



By H bushels tailings at $1 .25 per bushel 1 .87 



By 2 tons clover buts at $1.50 per ton 3.00 



Clover chaff and tailin""s to sow on wheat 1 .00 



b" 



$61.62 

 Deduct expenses 13.13 



Profit of land for ninety days $48 .49 



Nature of the land and soil with preparation for said crop of seed, 

 with management for the last* six years — condition of the land in 

 1838, compared with this date. 



This land came into my possession in May, 1838. Piece No. 1, 

 now set out with young apple trees was the most barren piece of land 

 that 1 ever saw, it being a part of about four acres of land that lay in 

 one piece cleared, which from appearances had been cleared twenty 

 years. It had been worked on shares for eight years previously to 

 its coming into my possession, and how much longer I am unable to 

 tell, — one year with oats, next year with buckwheat, not yielding 

 eight bushels to the acre at best, and some seasons not harvested at 

 all. The land was intended to be seeded with clover when I bought 

 it. I sowed one bushel of plaster per acre the same week I bought 

 it, and let the clover grow up all that I thought it would grow, (and 

 that was not much), about six inches high, and very thin. I then 

 plowed the clover under about the first July. Plowed again 20th of 

 September — then drew and spread about eight loads common fine 

 barn-yard manure on the acre, and then sowed it with wheat, har- 



