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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of Josiah Gibbs. 



Wheat. — The field of wheat I enter for premium contains 

 half an acre ; the soil is deep loam ; the land was manured and 

 planted last year, 1870, with corn and various garden plants. 

 April, 1871, sowed one bushel wheat, Oswego wheat. 



EXPENSES. 



Sowing and harrowing, . 

 Seed wheat, . 

 Harvesting and threshing, 

 Interest and taxes, 



The yield, 11 bushels 3 pecks, $1.50, 

 Fifteen hundred straw, 75 cents, . 



$2 50 

 1 50 

 4 18 

 3 30 



Income, 

 Expenses, 



Profit, 



$17 50 



Oats. — The land sowed with oats which I enter for premium 

 contains five acres, more or less ; the soil is loamy, with occa- 

 sionally gravelly knolls ; the land was manured and planted with 

 corn last year, 1870 ; sowed with Bedford oats, April, 1871. 



expenses. 



Sowed 14| bushels oats, 75 cents, 

 Sowing, .... 



Ploughing and harrowing, 

 Harvesting and threshing 

 Interest and taxes, 



The yield was 299 bushels, at 75 cents per bushel, 

 Five tons straw, $15 ton, .... 



Income, 

 Expenses, 



Profit, 



$299 25 

 126 74 



$172 51 



