OATS. 93 



The account stands as follows : — 

 Foi' ploughing, harrowing and sowing, 

 " harvesting and housing, 

 " threshing and cleaning, 

 " interest on $190 per acre, 



$64 00 

 By 88 bush. 20 qts. of rye, at $1.25 per hush., $110 75 



" 4 tons of straw, at $6 per ton, . . 24 00 



S134 75 



Profit, $70 75 



Hadley. 



OATS. 



ESSEX. 



Statement of William Foster. 



I oifer for premium a crop of oats, raised upon a piece of rather 

 ordinary land, which was broken up in the fall of 1852, sown 

 with oats in the spring of '53 — the crop was fair for sward 

 ground. It was ploughed in August following, the stubble well 

 covered, and manured in the spring of '54 with thirty cart loads, 

 of about thirty-five bushels each, of compost manure, twenty of 

 which were ploughed in, tlie remainder put in hills, and planted 

 to corn. The crop, in consequence of drought, was rather a 

 light one. This spring it was well ploughed, the last of April, 

 and sown, the first day of May, with four bushels of oats, well 

 harrowed, seeded to grass, and rolled. The oats were cut with 

 a cradle, the 4th of August, threshed and winnowed the 10th, 

 and found to measure seventy-eight bushels, two of which, were 

 weighed, and found to weigh thirty-two pounds each. 



Value of crop, at 6Q cts. per bushel, 45 of which I sold 



at that price, in August last, . . . . $51 68 

 Thirty hundred of straw, at least, . . . . 10 00 



Total, $61 68 



