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Expenses and Proceeds of Crops. 



Vol. l\ 



CR. 



By 300 bushels of oats at 45 cents, $135 00 



Deduct expenses 28 50 



Balance, $106 50 



There were seven acres of this field occu- 

 pied by the oats, which turned off forty-three 

 bushels per acre. On strong soil, oats should 

 be sown thin: on poor ground, thick. If al- 

 lowed room they will spread and branch out 

 on the former, the straw will be of much 

 stronger growth, and less liable to lodge ; the 

 growth being light on the latter, unless sown 

 thick, there will be waste of ground. Par- 

 ticular care should be taken to have this crop 

 put in the mow in a dry state. The earlier 

 it is cut, the more valuable will the straw be 

 as fodder. 



Third — Wheat. — Eight acres mostly clay 

 loam. The last week of August, 1837, 

 ploughed the oats stubble, and harrowed it 

 twice, once across the farrows. During Sep- 

 tember, spread fifty bushels of oyster shell 

 lime to the acre, and harrowed it in — hauled 

 on one hundred and fifty ox-cart loads of short 

 barn-yard manure, spread it evenly, and 

 ploughed it under crosswise of the previous 

 ploughing — harrowed once with the furrows 

 previous to sowing. On the 5th of October, 

 'sowed one-half with the white bald wheat — 

 and the other with the red chaff bearded — 

 five pecks of seed per acre — harrowed twice, 

 sown with timothy seed, and rolled after sow- 

 ing. The spring of 1838 put on about half a 

 bushel of clover seed, picked weeds from it 

 June 9th, finished hauling in two hundred and 

 forty dozen the 14th of July. 



Account with No. 3. 



DR. 



ToploushineSdaysat $2 $16 00 



To harrowing 3 days at^a, 6 00 



To 16 bushels of seed wheat at $2 32 00 



To rolling and sowing 1 50 



To 400 bushels of lime at 12i cents, 50 00 



To hauling do., 12 00 



To spreading do., 4 00 



To 150 loads of manure at S?l, 150 00 



To hauling and spreading do., 20 00 



To harvesting, 16 00 



$307 50 



CR. 



By 80 bushels of white wheat, at $1 75, . .$ 140 00 

 By 100 do. red chaff do at do., 175 00 



$315 00 

 Deduct expenses, 307 50 



Balance, $ 7 50 



The four acres of white wheat turned off 

 twenty bushels per acre, the growth of straw 

 rather lisjht, and grain somewhat shrivelled. 

 The half sown with the red bearded produced 

 twenty-five bushels to the acre, a large yield 

 of straw, and fjrain plump. The whole field 

 was partially aflected by rust, and the part 

 sown with white wheat received considerable 

 injury from the Hessian fly, which seems to 



have a predilection for this variety, when z 

 lowed to choose between it and others, prob 

 bly owing to the straw not being of so coarj 

 a texture. I am led to believe that the app! 

 cation of the lime would have been productii 

 of more beneficial consequences, especially 

 all succeed mg crops, if it had been appli( 

 nearer the surface. 



Fourth and Fifth. — No. 4 is a clay loa 

 which lays low, and from its position caniii 

 readily be drained. No. 5, a gravelly loar 

 Picked off all stones in the spring. Con 

 menced mowing No. 4, mostly clover, Jui 

 29th. Mowed No. 5, of which timothy formt 

 the greater proportion, July 9th. The gen 

 ral plan followed in gacheringthe hay, wasi 

 mow one day and let it lay in swath until tl 

 dew was oflT the next morning, then spread) 

 towards evening rake it up with a horse ral 

 and put it in cocks ; open these lightly tl 

 next morning, and haul in P. M.; but yc 

 must decide what course to pursue, from tl 

 condition of the grass, and the state of tl 

 weather. When this is unsettled it is ofle 

 double the work, to secure the hay crop,- 

 when this is the case, it is best not to hai 

 much grass down at a time, haul in any pc 

 tion as it becomes fit, and salt it in the mo\ 



Account with Nos. 4 and 5. 



DR. 



To picking stones half a day, $1 OO 



To getting in hay from No. 4 9 00 



do. do. No.5, 1100 



$21 OU 



By 6 loads of clover hay at $12, .$72 00 



By 2 " rye grass hay at $15, 30 00 



By 8 " timothy hay at $18, 144 00 



$246 00 

 Deduct expenses, 21 00 



Balance, $225 00 



There are five acres of clover and one o 

 rye grass, the latter was sown with turnepf 

 the fall previous. After wheat, the clove 

 yielded about one ton per acre, the rye gras 

 two tons. In No. .5 there were six acres o 

 timothy, which gave one and one-third ton 

 per acre, there was but little second crop oi 

 either field, from the effects of the grea 

 drought — the same cause made the first crop 

 much lighter than they would have otherwisf 

 been ; where plaster was sown this year it wa; 

 done to manifest advantage. Clover shouk 

 be cut when in full bloom, timothy when thf 

 seed forms. Three acres of these fields wen 

 out of the course, owing to a change of fen- 

 cing, and one acre of timothy was retained tf 

 be cradled for seed ; with these I kept no ac- 

 count. 



I have thus endeavored to lay before youi 

 readers, a succinct account of the leading 

 points in the management of tlie principal 



