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had yielded ruta baga and carrots for three years previous — plowed 

 eight to ten inches deep — seeded at rate of three bushels per acre, 

 8th of May — cut July 30th, when strawwas quite green. 



Estimate : plowing, harrowing and sowing, 



Seed, .... 



Harvesting and threshing, . 



Crop : 20 bushels, .... 

 Straw, 1^ tons, 



Profit, . . . . |18 50 



Oats. 



E. F. Crane obtained first premium on seventy-two bushels of 

 oats, weighing thirty-one pounds per bushel, from one acre. Land, 

 a clayey loam with a little sand ; plowed up and sowed to oats in 

 spring of 1856, without manure ; in spring of 1857 plowed eight 

 inches and applied two and one-half cords green stable manure. 

 Sowed May 25th, three bushels seed. Cut August 25th, before 

 fully ripe. 



Cost: Plowing, manuring, sowing, &g., . . $5 75 



Harvesting and threshing, . . . 6 00 



Value : 72 bushels, 50c., 



2\ tons (estimated) straw, |5, 



$47 25 



Thomas J. Twycross of Dresden, obtained second premium on fifty 

 bushels of oats, weighing thirty-two pounds per bushel, from one 

 acre of land, old mowing, plowed up and planted to corn and pota- 

 toes in 1856. Applied no manure this year; seed, five bushels, 

 sowed 10th May ; harvested middle August, nearly ripe. 



