FARM ACCOUNTS. 



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$20 worth of ashes, part to be used with plaster in the hills of 

 potatoes and corn, and part to be used in raising turnips. 



Monday, Sept. 1st, 1862. Sold thirty-three pounds pork, at 

 12 cents and received the value in groceries. 



Tuesday, 2d. Sold twenty-two chickens at 40 cents, three 

 bushels potatoes at 80 cents, and six dozen eggs, at 15 cents. 



Wednesday, 3d. Paid $1.75 for mending harness, $6 to 

 William Barry. Sold two bushels onions, at $1.25, thirty 

 pounds cheese, at 9 cents, and one ton of straw, at $8. 



Thursday, 4th. Went to market, and sold apples, butter, 

 potatoes, onions, cheese and eggs, amounting in all to $24.56. 



Friday, 5th. Sowed two acres to winter wheat. Bought 

 nine pounds beef, at 11 cents. 



Saturday, 6th. Bought one pair of oxen and three steers, 

 for $160, to be paid for in two months. Sold four pigs, at $3, 

 and twenty-two pounds butter, at 28 cents. 



Corresponding with this memorandum is the cash book or 

 farm account, in which the farm is debited or charged with all 

 expended for it and credited with all received from it : — 



Dr. Farm. 



1862. 



April 2. To tea and molasses, $1 22 



3. grass seed, ... 8 00 



3. shovel, .... 80 



5. wheat and barley, 4 25 



7. ashes, . . . . 20 00 

 Omitting till first week Sept. 



Sept. 1. To groceries, ... 3 96 



3. mendlnsr harness, 1 75 



Wm. Barry, wages, 6 00 



beef, 



99 



Balance on hand, 



m^ 97 



. 80 88 

 $127 85 



27 85 



30 



