NO EMIGRATION. Ill 



Brought forward . .311 ds. 



Sowing and harrowing, 6 dollars; thrashing 50 bushels, 3 dollars 8 



[The remainder, 150, give to hogs in the straw unthrashed, if 

 the straw be not good for sheep and cattle (i. e. not got 

 well) ; but if good, I would recommend it being given to 

 the sheep, lightly thrashed, as the very best food to be had 

 here for them, and which they are very fond of]. 



Four acres of oats for calves, sheep, milch cows and horse, 

 the seed three bushels per acre, at dollar per bushel, 3 

 dollars ; ploughing, &c. 10 dollars . . . .15 



Six acres corn, ploughing twice, 18 dollars; planting and har 

 rowing, 4 dollars; two hoeings, 9 dollars ; ploughing between 

 the rows, 2 dollars ; husking, &c. 12 dollars ; hauling and 

 thrashing, and seed, 10 dollars 65 



Eight acres in Timothy, or other grass, for hay, mowing and 

 stacking, as for clover . 24 



Twelve acres in sheep pasture 



Two acres for potatoes, cabbages, turnips, and other vege 

 tables for house (chiefly), sheep, calves, &c.; hiring a stout 

 boy at 5 dollars per month, and board for a year, to attend 

 cattle, milk, &c 100 



To the above expenses may be added one year s interest of the 

 purchase money, yet unpaid ; being 6 per cent, on 700 

 dollars 42 



Total 563 



Produce of the 70 acres. 



Twenty acres of wheat, at eighteen bushels per acre (some 

 times thirty), at | dollar per bushel .... 270 



Ten acres of clover seed, at two bushels per acre, and seven 

 dollars per bushel . . . . . . . .140 



Six acres of Indian corn, at 25 bushels per acre, 150 bushels, 

 at dollar . . . . . .75 



Thirty store pigs * (for fattening next season) . . 30 



Thirty fat hogs, weighing, at least, 200 Ibs. each (or one 



barrel), thirty barrels, at 12 dollars per barrel . . 360 



Six cows, butter and cheese for summer . . .60 



A yoke of fat oxen, 60 dollars (besides a cow or two killed 



for the house) 60 



Twenty lambs 20 dollars, and twenty fleeces of wool 20 dollars 40 

 Geese, feathers, eggs, fowls, &c. , - , . . 10 



One year s farm produce &quot;; : . 1045 

 Ditto expenses . . &amp;lt; . . 563 



Surplus 482 



* Five bushels of Indian corn, or peas, will fatten a fresh store hog, 

 or keep one through the winter ; they get their living in the woods and 

 pastures during the summer, also during the winter, when nuts are 

 plentiful, which generally happens three years out of five. 



