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Produce, thirteen and a half bushels beans on one-fourth of an 

 acre, and twenty-eight bushels of corn on an acre. 



$77 74 

 Profit, . . . . . . $58 15 



J. W. Haines asked a premium on a crop of oats and ruta 

 baga turnips. They were grown on a yellow loam, two feet 

 deep, in which are scattered stones of granite, limestone and 

 slate, is newly burnt land. The oats were sown about the 

 middle of May, and the turnips the last of June. Produce, six 

 hundred and forty bushels turnips, sixty pounds to the bushel; 

 eighty-nine and a half bushels oats, thirty-three pounds to the 

 bushel. 



Sowing oats, . . . . . $1 50 



Seed, . . . . . . 1 35 



Harvesting, . . . . . . 9 00 



Sowing and harvesting turnips, . . . 10 00 



$21 85 



89^ bushels oats at 45 cents, 

 640 bushels turnips at 12^ cents, 



$40 27 

 80 00 



$120 27 

 Profit, . . . . . . $98 42 



Mr. Haines also grew a crop of oats and peas on new land, 

 from which three crops of grain had been taken off. Produce, 

 thirty-five bushels, weighing forty-five pounds to the bushel. 



