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There was no manure applied to the present crop, 3 bushels of 

 common white and black oats were sown to the acre. 



The land was plowed the first of May, with single horse teams 

 to the depth of nine inches, thoroughly harrowed and sown the 

 5th of May, broadcast and well harrowed in. No further culture. 



Ripe and cut the first of August with a common hand cradle, 

 and tied up in small sheaves, and set up in stooks and capped. 

 When thoroughly cured, they were hauled into the barn and 

 thrashed with a machine the 16th of August, and found to yield 

 three hundred and f jrty-one bushels of good merchantable oats, 

 equal to 93 bushels and one half per acre. 



The expenses of the crop, were as follows : 

 Three days plowing hand and team, at 16s. ..$6 00 



One days harrowing, 1 6s 2 00 



12 bushels seed at 3s 4 50 



4 days cutting and putting up at 10s 5 00 



Hauling to barn, 1 6s 2 00 



Thrashing and measuring, 1100 



Interest on land at 75 dollars per acre, 19 25 



Whole amount of expenses, 4975 



Cr. By 341 bushels of oats at 40 cts $136 40 



" 8 tons straw, at 16s 16 00 



152 40 



Leaving a balance in favor of crop of, §102 65 



Equal to 28 dollars and 12 cents per acre. 



ELISHA M. EKADLEY. 



Clov tu Ckop. — Fked. N. Tobev, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co. 



The field on wliich said crop was grown, is a clay loam, and a 

 crop has been taken from it annually lor more than thirty years, 

 without any apparent diminution of its pruductivenoss, but rather 

 an increase. 



A uniform system of rotation of crops is pursued of corn, 2d 

 barley, 3d wlicat, 4th clover; remaining in clover two or three 

 years. Manure from the barn yard is uniformly iq)i'lied to the 



