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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 6 



200 ACRES, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. (A.) 



£^xpenscs. 



Dollar: 

 200 acres, price .3200 

 dollars, interest at 5 

 per cent. - 160 



Consumption on Tarm 

 Indian corn, - 80 

 Rye, - - 15 

 Buck-wheat 13 



Hay, - - 120 



Labor hired. 



Two men, one boy, 

 and one girl, feci ; 

 but supposed not, 

 for simplicity of cal- 

 culation, 



Taxes, 



228 



350 



Maintenance of a fam- 

 ily of five persons. 

 Seed for tlie above. 



Produce. 



Dollars. 

 Wheat, 20 acres, 200 



bushels, - 180 



Rye, five acres, fifty 



bushels, - 30 



Indian corn, 20 acres, 



300 bushels, - 120 

 Bnclc-wheat, 5 acres, 



75 bushels, - 22 



Oats, five acres, 100 



bushels, - - 20 

 Flax, - - 30 



Cirier, - - 32 



Hay, - - - 120 

 Cattle (12), - 70 



Sheep (20), - 28 



Hogs, - - 80 



Poultry, - - 10 



740 



Five dollars per acre 

 on 150 acres. 



314 ACRES, PITTSBURGH. (B) 



Expenses. 



£ s. d. 

 Purchase of 314 acres, at 16s. 8d.. 261Z. 



Interest at 5 per cent. - - - 13 



Consumption by Cattle. 



30 bushels rye, 2s. M. - 

 200 Indian corn, 2s. - 



60 oats, Is. Qd - - 



J60 potatoes, Is. \Qd. 



Produce. 



150 bushels wheat, at 3s. 9rf, 



150 rye, at 2s. Qd. 



150 Indian corn, 2s. - 



160 oats. Is. Gd. 



50 ■ barley, 3s. 9rf. 



go buclv-wheat, Is. Gd. 



200 • potatoes. Is. \0d. 



£ 45 IS 



£ s. d. 



28 2 6 



18 10 



25 



12 



9 7 6 



3 15 



IS 6 



From 47 acres, £ 115 1 



TALBOT COUNTY, MARYLAND, 450 ACRES. (C) 



Expenses. 

 Price, 2500L; interest 

 at five percent. £ 125 



Produce. 



On 450 acres, 1013 



VIRGINIA. (D) 



Expenses. 



Interest of 61S7Z. stock in 



land, and negroes, and 



utensils, &,c. £ 309 7 6 



Clothes, 8cc. neg. 150 



Taxes (corrected) 30 



Produce. 



Wheat 5000 bushels £ 750 

 Meat, 5/. a head, 125 



875 

 489 



£ 489 7 6 Profit on capital 



of 6187/. £386 

 Or percent. 6 4 



Add 51. 5 



£ 11 4 



District. — In the map prefixed to Mr. JefTer- 

 soii's Virginia, the count}' of Botetourt, as traced 

 by the mountains, fbnus nearly a triangle. From 

 the south point of that triangle draw two lines; 

 one to Alexandria, and the other to Fort Pitt, and 

 you inclose a country of this form and size: 



By extending to the dotted line, it will strike 

 the bend in the Fulvanna, near ToJier, Randolph, 

 and Snotcden, and include a country, whicnou^ht 

 to be gentle slopes, rising to the mountains. This 

 laro-e district ought, upon theory, to be the best 

 sheep country in America. 



Philadelphia, June 28th, 1793. 

 Dear sir: 



I should have taken time ere this, to have con- 

 sidered the observations of Mr. Young, could I at 

 this place have done it in such a way as would 

 satisfy either him or myself. When I wrote the 

 notes'of the last year, I had never before thought 

 of calculating what were the profits of a capital 

 invested in Virginia acrricuhure. Yet that appear- 

 ed to be what Mr. Young most desired. Lest, 

 therefore, no other of those, whom you consulted 



