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Plowing, ..... 

 Seed, ..... 



Sowing and harrowing, 

 Harvesting and threshing, 



$9 12 



35 bushels oats and peas, at 87i cents, $30.62J. 



Profit, . . . . . . $21 50 



Sumner Whitney says : The crop of oats and peas I offer for 

 premium was raised on three acres of land. Oats were raised 

 on the land last year. I had one hundred bushels from three 

 acres, being thirty-three and one-third bushels per acre, weigh- 

 ing forty-two pounds per bushel. Soil, yellow loam. It was 

 plowed in the fall of 1855, about six inches deep. It was sowed 

 the middle of May, four bushels to the acre; soil from one to 

 two feet deep. Last year there was one bushel of plaster sowed 

 per acre. This year there was not any top dressing applied. 

 The cost of raising was as follows: 

 Plowing, . . . . . . $1 50 



Seed, 4 bushels, at 87 cents, . . . 3 48 



Harrowing and sowing, . . . . 1 00 



Harvesting, . . . . . . 4 00 



$9 98 

 Cr. by 33^ bushels oats and pcas; at 87 cents per bus., 28 71 



$13 7 



