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Two cords of manure, - - - - $12 00 

 Twenty bushels of seed potatoes, - - 20 00 



Twenty-five days' work in planting, hoeing 



and digging potatoes, at $1 per day, 25 00 



$57 00 



There is a yield of potatoes, averaging from seven to four- 

 teen hills to a bushel, which will make not less than four 

 hundred bushels, at fifty cents per bushel, - - $200 00 



Deduct expense of seed, &c., _ _ _ 57 00 



$143 00 

 Income from hay, 2 acres. - _ - _ 58 00 



Income from the 4 acres, - _ _ - $201 00 



The first cost of the land was twenty-five dollars per acre, 

 and the cost of clearing, (by contract,) fifty dollars per acre, the 

 whole expense, seventy-five dollars per acre, - $300 00 



You will perceive, that I consider the income from the four 

 acres, which, in its present condition, cost three hundred dol- 

 lars, to be two hundred and one dollars. 



In addition to the four acres, I have eight acres now nearly 

 cleared, which I intend to plant the ensuing spring. 



Lexington, September 8th, 1849. 



Charles Gerry^s Statement. 



The piece of bog meadow, I requested you to examine, 

 contains about seven acres, surrounded on three sides, with 

 more elevated land : bottom, meadow soil, from two to four feet 

 deep, on clay subsoil ; it was covered three years ago, with a 

 thick coat of moss and water bushes. I dug, in 1847, a ditch 

 around the whole piece, and cross-ditched, so as to sufficiently 

 drain the whole piece, which has materially helped to improve 

 the adjoining land. In 1847, I ploughed four acres, by the use 

 of cart wheels, having the plough so hitched to the axletree as 



