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EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



&quot; WILLINGDON, March 4, 1844. 



&quot;The produce of my land, five acres, the last year, (1843,) 

 being the quantity and the price : 



. s. d. 



8 qt. 6 bu. of wheat, at 52s. per qt 22 15 



3 &quot; &quot; of oats, at 21s. per qt 330 



1 &quot; 6 &quot; of barley, at 30s. per qt 2 12 6 



1 &quot; &quot; of peas, at 34s. per qt. ...... 1 14 



120 bushels of potatoes, at 1 s. per bushel, ... 600 



1 large hog sold for 4 15 



1 small do 156 



1 calf, sold young, 1 10 



1 hog for self, 25 stone, 3 15 



Butter and milk, 11 



1 calf, reared for a cow, 2 10 



1 young sow, 200 



63 

 Rent, 25 



38 00 

 1 qt. of tail wheat, worth 2, which we eat, ... 200 



Total, 40 00&quot; 



I subjoin the letter with which he has favored me : 



&quot; Sir, 



&quot; I send you the rotation of cropping for six years, which 

 I adopt myself ; likewise the kinds and quantity which I sow, for 

 two cows and a heifer, on my five acres. First, I sow about one 

 and a half acres of wheat, which I drill in, about nine inches apart 

 between drills. I sow two and a half bushels to the acre. Then 

 I sow one acre with clover in the spring, about three gallons 

 of seed to the acre, in order to cut for the cows green, and the 

 rest for hay for the winter ; this is the best food that I can get. 

 It may be cut three times. Second, one acre of either oats or 

 barley that I drill in, as every thing drilled is so much best for 

 the boys to work amongst, and likewise a saving of seed. 

 Third, I sow about twenty rods of rye, and sixty rods of winter 

 tares, in September, for the cows in the spring, and they will 

 come off soon enough for potatoes or turnips ; after them, then it 



