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tons of hay tliat I sold at tlie "barn for ten dollars 



a ton, $120 00 



I fed the rest, and considered the feed worth . . 20 00 



$872 00 



In 1852 I let four acres for, 65 00 



I planted six and a half with potatoes without any 

 manure, which I sold on the ground, after being dug, 

 for seventy-five dollars per acre, . . . . 487 50 



I planted two-thirds of an acre with corn without 

 manure, had thirty -five bushels of good sound corn. 



Sold the fodder for $8, . 



Cut on the six and a half acres of grass ten tons of 

 hay, which I sold at the barn for eighteen dollars 

 per ton, ........ 



Feed, ......... 



$795 50 



In 1853 I let seven and three-quarters acres for, . 215 00 

 I planted five and a half acres with potatoes, which I 

 sold on the ground, after being dug, for fifty dollars 

 per acre, ........ 275 00 



I calculated I lost forty barrels, besides, by rot. 

 I sold the grass standing on the six and a half acres 



for 184 00 



$674 00 

 Calculated the feed worth, 40 00 



$714 00 



Last winter I put on to the six and a half acres of 

 grass two hundred and sixty loads of clear gravel, 

 and one hundred and thirty loads of compost 

 manure, which is the first that has been put on since 

 it was sown down ; the expense of putting on this 

 gravel was $70 ; compost $130, .... 200 00 



Other incidental expenses, ..... 100 00 



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