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were cleared off in the spring of 1855, and put into -vrheat. The 

 summer of 1856 I raised on this land a crop of oats, about forty 

 bushels to the acre. The second week of last May I sowed and 

 harrowed in three bushels of peas and one of oats to the acre. The 

 18th of August I harvested them. When threshed I had thirty-one 

 and one-half bushels. The land was plowed for the first time last 

 full. My crop cost me as follows : 



Plowing land, $2 00 



Harrowing and seed, 5 25 



Sowing seed and picking roots, 75 

 Harvesting, 2 00 



Threshing, 2 00 



$12 00 



31| bushels of peas and 

 oats, worth 75 cents per 

 bushel, $24 52 



Cost, 12 00 



Profit, 812 52 



The land that I raised my wheat on has been pastured for four 

 years. The last of April I^broke it up about nine inches deep. 

 The 8th of May I harrowed down the furrows thoroughly. The 9th 

 of May I sowed on and harrowed in one and three-fourths bushels 

 of white bald wheat, prepared by washing it in cold water and dry- 

 ing it fit for sowing by mixing with it unleached wood ashes, on one 

 acre and thirty-six rods of land. After the grain got up about 

 three inches, I sowed on one and one-half bushels of plaster, with 

 the same amount of unleached wood ashes. Harvested the last 

 week in August, which yielded, when threshed, twenty-five bushels 

 of first rate grain, making a fraction over twenty bushels and twen- 

 ty-nine quarts to the acre ; which cost me as follows : 



Breaking land, $3 00 25 bushels of wheat, worth 



Seed, 3 50 $1 75 per bushel, $43 75 



Sowing and harrowing, 2 50 Cost, 17 25 



Plaster Paris and ashes, 1 25 

 Harvesting and threshing, 7 00 



$17 25 Profit, $26 50 



Herds Grass. I have cleaned up from the herds grass raised 

 by me on one acre of land, in the summer of 1856, and entered 

 by me for the Society's premium, being only an average of the 

 crop on a field of seven acres, two and one-half bushels of bright, 

 handsome seed. If I had made a selection of the best acre, I have 



