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vested the second day of October. It was cut up at the roots 



while the stalks were quite greeu. I prefer this method, as 



the fodder is worth much more than when left to dry standing. 



Produce, seventy bushels of ears, weighing forty pounds to the 



bushel. 



Plowing, harrowing, furrowing, and hauling manure, $8 00 



Manure, . . . . . . 12 00 



Hoeing and planting, . . . . 6 00 



Harvesting, . . . . * . . 4 00 



70 bushels ears of corn at 50 cents, 



1200 pounds corn fodder, . 



3 bushels beans at $1.75, . 

 1 load of pumpkins. 



Profit, . .■ . . 



$45 75 



Jacob W. Haskell sowed one acre of wheat on which he 

 asked a premium, and also an acre of barley. The soil is 

 stiff and hard before it is plowed, inclined to clay ; but when 

 stirred dry, it becomes light and fine. Is of a dark color, and 

 has almost all kinds of rocks mixed with it, some of them quite 

 large. The subsoil free from stone. The ground on which the 

 barley was grown, was planted to corn in 1854. Sis cords of 

 manure spread and plowed in from eight to ten inches deep, 

 and three cords more used in the hill. In 1855 sowed it to 

 wheat and raised forty-five bushels. In 1856 sowed it to bar- 

 ley and had thirty-four bushels. In 1855 plowed, manured and 

 worked the ground the same as the piece in 1854, and planted 

 it to corn, and in 1856 sowed it broadcast to wheat. It lodged 

 badly, but yielded twenty and a half bushels of wheat, and two 

 tons of straw. The barley weighed forty-seven pounds, and 

 the wheat fifty-five pounds to the bushel. 



Wheat.— Plowing, . . . . . $2 00 



Sowing, harrowing and rolling, . . . 2 00 



Mowing, raking and carting to barn, . . 3 00 



