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Mr. Tailor's Stapement. — Oats. 



Soil, gravelly loam ; previous crop potatoes, with 15 loads 

 barn yard manure applied to the acre. Plowed for the present 

 crop, once; sowed the middle of May ; seeds bushels, of the 

 "horsermane," variety; harvested Istof September, and thrashed 

 in November. 



Expense of cultivation, Sec, including seed at 4 shillings, 



per bushel, use of land and taxes, |10 00 



Amount of crop, 73 bushels : 



Value of grain, at 40 cts. per bushel,, . 29 43 



Straw, estimated at, , 8 00 



37 43 



Balance in favor of crop, $27 43 



Receipts and Expenditures of Society. 



Balance in treasury last year, §64 63 



Amount received from the State, 84 00 



Receipts from all other sources, 622 86 



$771 49 

 Paid out premiums and expenses, 763 49 



In treasury 8 00 



§771 49 



All of which is respectively submitted, 



J. BATTEY, PresidiTit. 



Officers for 1853. — Richard Keese, President, Keese\ille; E. 

 Harding, Secretary, Keesevllle ; Peter Keese, Treasurer, A usable. 



