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tarvested the onions October 1st, and the others the last of 

 October. In consequence of the bad weather, the wheat and 

 oats wasted a good deal more than the seed. Produce, eigh- 

 teen busncls of wheat, forty bushels of oats ; five hundred and 

 sixty bushels of onions; six hundred bushels of carrots, and 

 eight hundred bushels of turnips. 



$942 00 



No statement is given of the quantity ol land cultivated, 

 though the inference is, that it was one acre to each crop. If 

 it be so, here is an average produce $188.40 per acre, or $942 

 from five acres. Surely a generous return and rather ahead of 

 farming " out west." 



H. H. Webb received a gratuity on a crop of wheat which 

 grew on a fine, slaty soil, of dark color, underlaid by a slate 

 ledge. The soil is free from stone. The seed sown was the 

 Java wheat. The year before, the land was planted to corn, 

 and manured in the hill, on a sward. It was plowed about 

 eight inches deep, and sowed May 5th, broadcast, at the rate 

 of two bushels to the acre ; was harvested August 20th, when 

 quite green. Broduce per acre, eighteen bushels, which weighed 

 two hundred and eighty pounds. 

 Plowing and harrowing, . . . . $6 00 



Harvesting, . . . . . . 2 00 



Thrashing, . . . . . . 3 00 



18 bushels wheat, $3, .... 



Profit, ...... 



$54 00 



Philip Hubbard obtained the first premium on corn, the first 

 on barley, and the third on potatoes. These crops were grown 

 on a sandy loam, fine, light and friable, of a yellow color, and 



