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corn crop, at the rate of thirty loads to the acre, plaster is also 

 used upon the corn and clover, at the rate of one and a half 

 bushels per acre. 



For many years this field has been plowed, uniforraly eight 

 and nine inches in depth. The manure is spread upon the clover 

 sward, and plowed under the depth above mentioned. 



This field was in vrheat in 1851, and sown with cloverseed in 

 the month of March, at the rate of six quarts to the acre. The 

 last of June, 1852, a heavy growth of clover was cut from the 

 field for hay, cut between the 25th of June and 4th of July ; the 

 after growth was grown for seed, and cut in the month of Sep- 

 tember following. 



Expense of cultivation : 



One and a quarter bushels seed at |5 per bushel, §6 50 



Sowing the same, 75 



Four days mowing, $1 per day, 4 00 



Three hands and team, one and a half days, curing and 



hauling to barn, 6 00 



Thrashed by a machine at an expense of $1 per bushel,. . 30 00 



$47 25 



Value of crop : 



By 30f I bushels cloverseed at $7.50 per bushel, $227 75 



" value of hay after thrashing, 15 00 



$242 75 

 Deduct expenses, ,,..,.......,....,...,. 47 25 



Profits, $195 50 



or $29.54 per acre. = - 



The field contains, as attested by the surveyor, six acres and 



one hundred rods of ground, and the yield four bushels and 



thirty-five pounds per acre. 



FREDERICK N. TOBEY. 

 East Bkomfield, Feb. 1, 1853. 



(Proofs as required by the Society.) 



