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wheat. Area of field, 1.95 acres; expense of seed, cultivation, &c., (in- 

 •cluding- rent of QTomul, $28,) $G7 SO; yield wheat, 88 bushels; sold at 

 ^1 80perbushel,>158 40; straw, $30. Total, $188 40. Net profit, $120 60. 

 The soil is a gravely loam, not drained, but high land nearly level. 

 The previous crop was beet seed, raised without manure. The crop 

 before that was corn on a timothy sod, manured on the surface after 

 plowing with thirty loads of well-rotted stable manure per acre. The 

 land on which this crop was raised was plowed about the middle of Sep- 

 tember, sown broadcast, at the rate of one bushel and a half per acre, 

 after which it was harrowed and rolled with a heavy iron roller. It 

 made its appearance in four or five days above the ground, and at the 

 commencement of winter the gTowiug wheat nearly covered the ground. 

 Commenced harvesting on the 27th ; finished on the 29th July. It stood 

 in the field five days, when it was drawn to the barn and immediately 

 threshed and cleaned and weighed, yielding eighty-eight bushels of clean 

 wheat, sixty pounds per bushel, making forty-five bushels and seven 

 pounds per acre. 



Expense of crop. 



Plowing $4 50 



Harrowing 3 00 



Sowing 50 



Seed, three bushels, at $2 60 7 80 



Eeaping and binding 8 00 



Hauling 3 00 



Threshing and cleaning 10 00 



Interest on land at $200 28 00 



Marketing crop 3 00 



67 80 



Credit. 



Eighty-eight bushels, at $1 80 $158 40 



Straw 30 00 



188 40 



Net profit on 1.95 acre, $120 60. 



PREMIUM FLAX. 



Zerah Eider, Cambridge, Washington Comity, received a premium of 

 fifteen dollars on a crop of flax grown on 2.12 acres of land. The land 

 on which this crop was grown is a slate loam, in pasture, and manured 

 the previous year with twenty loads of barn-yard manure spread on the 

 surface and plowed in, and planted in corn and cultivated in the usual 

 way. 



Expenses of crop. 



Two bushels seed $6 00 



Plowing, sowing, and harrowing 6 00 



Pulling flax, $24; drawing, $3 27 00 



Eippling and cleaning seed '^ 00 



Carting and spreading 3 00 



