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Dollars. 



Brought over . . 6380 



Provision for one year, and sundry incidental charges 1000 

 Sundry articles of linen, books, apparel, implements 



&c., brought from England .... 1000 



Carriage of ditto, suppose 2000 Ibs. at 10 dollars per cwt. 200 



Voyage and travelling expences of one person, suppose 309 



8889 



Note. The first instalment on the land is 320 dollars, 

 therefore 960 dollars of the purchase money remain in 

 hand to be applied to the expences of cultivation, in ad 

 dition to the sums above stated. 



Expenditure of first Year. 



Breaking up 100 acres, 2 dollars per acre . . . 200 



Indian corn for feed, 5 barrels, (a barrel is five bushels) 10 



Planting ditto ........ 25 



Horse-hoeing ditto, one dollar per acre . . . 100 



Harvesting ditto, i| dollar per acre . . . 150 



Ploughing the same land for wheat, i dollar per acre . 100 



Seed wheat, sowing and harrowing . . . . 175 



Incidental expences ....... 240 



Produce of first Year . . 1000 

 100 acres of Indian corn, 50 bushels (or 10 barrels) per 



acre, at 2 dollars per barrel .... 2000 



Net produce . 1000 



Expenditure, of second Year. 

 Breaking up 100 acres for Indian corn, with expences on 



that crop ........ 485 



Harvesting and threshing wheat, 100 acres . . 350 



Ploughing 100 acres for wheat, seed, &c. . . . 275 



Incidents ........ 290 



Produce of second Year . . 1400 

 100 acres Indian corn, 10 barrels per acre, 



2 dollars per barrel .... 2000 



100 acres wheat, 20 bushels per acre, 75 



dollars per barrel. . . . 1500 3500 



Net produce . 2100 



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