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much grain is taken, is to hire a car, which will cost $39 from 

 Owego, and other places in proportion. A car will hold from 

 sevep to nine hundred bushels of grain, and $40 for a cattle 

 car, which will hold from 15 to 20 head of cattle, 



The prices of grain for the last four weeks are wheat Jl, com 

 from 50 to 75 cts., rje 75 cts , oat;? 44 and 15 cts,, buckwheat from 

 37 to 44 cts. or $1,62^ per hundred for the flour; the price of 

 pork is $7.50 per hundred, beef $3 and $4, butter from 20 to 25 

 cts. . The price of lire stock is, horses $85 to $100, oxen from $85 

 to $100, cows from $10 to $15, sheep from $1.25 to $2.50, and the 

 prices of sheep pelts Is from 5 to 2 shillings. 



I have taken ci^nsiderable pains to get this up. and hope it 

 will be acceptable, and should have answered the circular by the 

 first of the month, had the men in different parts of the countj 

 answered my inquiries ; but I got no answer from them, and had 

 to go to Owego to gain information from men attending court. 



mchoh, Dec Mth, 1852. ROBERT HOWELL. 



SrATEMneiRT of Farming m Tioga. 



Owego Fc6. 25, 1853. 

 Dear Sir —As it must be interesting to all friends of agriculture 

 to hear any account of crops, and the method of obtaining them, I 

 take the liberty of presenting you with a statement of some of my 

 last year's crops ; but it is not my intention to send you an account 

 of immense returns of single acres, as that cannot enrich the grower 

 or consumer, to any extent ; my object is to show that a system 

 may be adopted that enriches the owner and the soil. I sowed 

 ten acres of oats last year, on corn stubble ; about half the ground 

 was manured on the sod, for the corn crop ; the land was plowed 

 the first week in April, and sowed at the rate of two bushels aDd 

 a half per acre, and harvested the last week in August. The re- 

 turn was 600 bushels ; two acres were inferior to the other part ; I 

 believe if three acres had been taken alone, they would have pro- 

 duced upwards of 70 bushels to the acre. I had ten acres of corn, 

 which produced more than 400 bushels , the last two years hdve 



