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324 Profit of Sorling cattle. 
profits will pay a handsome interest on.a capital of 
about 19,300, dollars vested in and employed on this 
establishment, which appears to me something like elu- 
cidating the point by mathematical demonstration. 
As measurement and weight of bulky articles on a 
farm cannot be estimated with the same precision, as 
they are when carried to market I state below the 
mode on which the foregoing estimate is generally 
founded. 
I am your very respectful humble servant. 
Joun Loratrn. 
The first loads of potatoes were measured, and the 
carts marked, and afterwards filled to this gage ; they 
have heretofore overrun on being riddled, the small 
at first lay between the cavities of the large. 
The corn was all correctly measured in a tub very 
similar to a Maryland corn barrel, one was shelled and 
measured from which the crop is estimated it; is evi- 
dent this will shrink in the crib, but I have no certain 
rule to determine how much. 
I consider eight square feet or 512 cubical feet forms 
a ton of hay in a well settled mow ; where it lies shallow 
or is not well settled, allowances should be made. 
The mode of measuring dung is explained in a for- 
mer communication. 
