AMOUNT AND VALUE OF CROP. 



husked a twentieth part. The ears, liusks and all, 

 are put into the barn, on the floors as well as in 

 the bays, and they are laid a yard or four feet 

 thick under a large granary to keep them from 

 the wet until they can be husked, from which we 

 have been called off for the purpose of taking up 

 a large crop of mangel-wurzel. So that, it will be 

 impossible to ascertain the whole crop until about 

 the time that I have mentioned, before which, 

 every part of it will, perhaps, have been sold. 



164. But, I have ascertained the amount of 

 the crop, as nearly as possible ', in doing which I 

 have proceeded thus ; — I went into the field, some 

 days ago ; into what I deemed the best part of 

 the field, and measured out a piece precisely a 

 rod square : I had the ears gathered, carried into 

 my study, and had them husked, and then the 

 grain rubbed off in my presence. The result was, 

 four gallons and three quarts, Winchester mea- 

 sure, besides the nubbings, as the Yankees call 

 them, of which I will say more presently. There 

 being 160 square rods in a statute acre, and there 

 being eight gallons in a bushel, and four quarts in 

 a gallon, the crop, according to this specimen, is 

 NINETY-FIVE BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. 

 The nubbings on the rod I reckon to be equal in 

 value to a pint of good grain. But, 1 never took 

 them into my original estimate ; so that I fall five 

 bushels an acre short of that estimate. When I 



