OATS. 



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July, and in August it was threslied by hand, producing twenty- 

 five bushels on one acre and seventeen rods. 



Expenses : — 



Super-phosphate of lime and plaster, 



Three bushels barley, . 



Ploughing, . 



Sowing and harrowing, 



Cutting and getting in, 



Threshing and cleanino; 



Interest on land, 



&7 



Income : — 



Twenty-five bushels barley, at 75 cents, 

 One ton straw, ..... 



!1 50 



27 25 



$5 75 



I think that the crop was injured from thirty to forty per cent., 

 by the dry weather, which occurred at the most critical period 

 of its growth. 



OATS. 



Statement of George W. Wood. 



The acre of land I raised my oats on, is a clayey loam, and 

 it is the same on which I raised my corn last year. I managed 

 as follows : — 



April 29th, ploughed ,• May 2d, sowed the oats, (three bushels 

 and three pecks) ; the wind blowing, it took more oats than I 

 expected, but I do not think it any loss. 



After ploughing, I harrowed, then sowed the oats ; went 

 over with the cultivator, and harrowed again, till the soil was 

 very fine ; I then bush-harrowed it twice. I have found by ex- 

 perience, that working the soil is of great advantage for spring 

 grain. I cut the oats the 25th of July, and threshed them 



