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Hoeing, 10 days at $1.25, . 

 Digging, 11 da3's at 1.25, . 

 Seed, 20 bushels at 50 cents, 

 Use of team, 



2G4 bushels potatoes" at 50 cents, 



Profit, .... 

 Harvesting two acres turnips, 

 Seed and sowing, . 

 Digging and hauling 22 days, at 1.25, 



$33 25 

 1045 bushels turnips at 12^, . 130 02^ 



Profit, . . . . . ■ . $97 37J 



Mr. Cummings also asked for premium on a crop of oats and 

 rough buckwheat. The land was in oats and potatoes the year 

 before. The oats were sown May 10th,. and the buckwheat 

 May 20th. Seed was three bushels per acre of oats, and one 

 bushel of buckwheat. Oats harvested August 28th, and buck- 

 wheat September 15th. Produce, two hundred and forty-eight 

 bushels of oats on tliree acres, or eighty-two and two-thirds 

 bushels per acre ; and forty-four bushels of buckwheat on one 

 acre. 



Seed for one acre of oats, . 

 Sowing, .... 

 Harrowing, .... 

 Cradling and binding, . . 



Thrashing, .... 



$1 50 

 50 



2 00 



3 00 

 5 00 



$12 00 



82§ bushels oats, ... $41 33J 



Profit, $29 33^ . 



He also cultivated a crop of* white beans and small Canada 

 corn, on a yellow loam, with which is mixed limestone and slate* 

 It is a first crop on a burn. Planted corn May 14th, and beans 

 May 28th. The rows of beans were two feet apart, and the 

 hills eighteen inches. The corn was planted three feet between 

 the rows, and two feet between the hills. Harvested September 

 10th and 20th. The corn was cut up at the roots and stocked. 



