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was thrashed with a machine Oct. 2d, and cleaned in a good fan- 

 ning mill ; the product was sixty-four bushels and thirty pounds 

 on the piece, the piece contained two acres and eighteen rods and 

 averaged thirty bushels and thirty-one pounds per acre. 



Expense of Cultivation. 



1 1 days plowing, |3.00 



J day harrowing, 1.00 



4 bushels seed, 6.00 



4 days harvesting, 4.00 



Thrashing and cleaning, 5.25 



Interest on land at fifty dollars per acre, 7.00 



Total expense of crop, $26,25 



Value of straw, _. $10.00 



By 64^ bushels wheat at 9s 72.56 



Value of crop, $82.56 



Total expense of crop, $26.25 



Profit, $56.31 



Westmoreland, Dec. 28, 1852 CHARLES W. EELLS. 



(Proofs aa rectuired by Society.) 



Oats. — E. M. Bradley, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co. 

 Statement of Management of Land ^ ^c. 



(Proofs as required by Society.) 



The field upon which this crop of oats was grown, was in the 

 spring of 1851 manured with abf»ut 40 loads of common barn yard 

 manure per acre, plowed and planted to corn, and yielded 9-^ 

 bushels of shelled corn per acre. 



The soil is a gravelly loam about 12 inches deep, and rests upon 

 a subsoil of red clay. 



A few apple tree^ stand upon one side of the field, the ground 

 lies gently undulating. 



