GRAIN CROPS. 



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was ploughed in August, 1870. Three cords compost manure 

 were spread upon it, and September 8th one bushel and one 

 peck of rye were sowed and harrowed in. July 11th, 1871, it 

 was cut and harvested ; threshed and cleaned the middle of 

 September. The amount of rye raised was thirty-six bushels 

 and three pecks — 56 pounds to the bushel. Straw, one and 

 three-fourths tons. 



EXPENSE OF CROP. 



Cost of ploughing, . 

 Value of manure on the ground, 

 Cost of seed, .... 

 of sowing and harrowing, . 

 of cutting and harvesting, 

 of threshing and cleaning, 



$3 00 

 18 00 



1 62 



2 50 

 5 00 

 5 00 



Net income, 



. $58 34 



Prom actual measurement I hereby certify that the above 

 crop covered one acre of land and no more. 



M. W. Bartlett, Surveyer. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of John Johnson. 



Indian Corn. — The crop of Indian Corn which I enter for 

 premium was grown upon one acre of land. The value of the 

 land is about seventy-five dollars per acre. The top soil is 

 varied in quality — some portions being gravelly, some of a deep 

 rich, dark soil, with just enough mixture of sand to make a 

 good active, gritty soil, the whole being underlaid with a gravel 

 subsoil. This acre field was planted in rows about twenty-seven 

 rods in length, and three and one-half feet apart the longest way, 



