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100 bushels Salt, 2s. 6d. 12 10 



330 gallons Rum, 2s 33 100 thousand Tobacco 



750 bushels of Potatoes, hills, 20 hhds. 7. 



for seed, Is 37 10 10s 150 



1450 18 4449 13 



SECOND STATEMENT OF CROPS IN 1789. 



Har- 

 Acres Acres rowed 



Corn; 375 acres. Same in all respects as No. 1 1343 843 



Buckwheat; 375 acres. First ploughing in April. . . . 375 



Second do. last of June 375 750 



Three harrowings 1125 



Wheat; 375 acres. One ploughing after the Buck 

 wheat is cut 375 



Two harrowings 750 



Sundries; 375 acres. The same as No. 1 1025 762 



Barley; 375 acres. The same as No. 1 750 1125 



4243 4605 



Of the above Work 



~Har- 

 Acres Acres rowed 



One ploughing for Corn, 1788 375 



Fall, one ploughing for Sundries, do 375 



January and February, first ploughing for Barley. . 375 

 February and March, second do do ... 375 



750 1125 



March, listing for Corn 94 



ploughing first time for Root of Scarcity. . . 8 



do. do. Flax 20 



do. do. Pumpkins 8 



130 



April second ploughing for Flax 20 60 



do. Pease, in three-feet ridges 75 



do. checkered 19 



Opening Corn lists 31 



First ploughing for Buckwheat for a crop .... 375 



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